Being Free Now

“When man gives up his belief in death, he will advance more rapidly towards God, Life, Love.” (Science and Health, page 429)

Let’s daily take death by its horns and show it who is boss. The belief of death is burdening our days, making us live within limits and agree that those limits are acceptable, inevitable. If we are to truly experience and explore the full reality and goodness of Life, we must give death a rest, so to speak.

I’m not saying this is easy. Mortal mind is fixed on mortality by nature. It is all about finiteness, a beginning and an inevitable end. A fear of death would color all that we are and all that we do. It would make us paranoid of others, afraid of our own bodies, and agreeing to life made of phases that diminish our being when in fact progress is the law. But we can deny that mortal mind our attention and turn to the immortal Mind which holds the Truth of Life for you and for all. This Mind reveals our present salvation.

Let’s daily, no matter what our human age is, release ourselves from the thought and fear of death. Its mesmerism is keeping us from seeing the fullness of our lives, the broadening possibilities, our available and eternal well-being no longer confined within a box of time. Life is everlasting. You are eternal and without an end. You dwell in God and the eternal Now of His Love. You are always safe in the reality of Life. You can’t leave the presence of God Who is Life, so there is nothing to fear, nothing that can separate you from God and from your rightful, abundant, carefree, wonderful Life!

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“Man reflects infinite Truth, Life, and Love. The nature of man, thus understood, includes all that is implied by the terms ‘image’ and ‘likeness’ as used in Scripture.” (Science and Health, page 94)

There is nothing small or limited about man. Being the image of God does not mean expressing a certain number of characteristics, as many as can be expressed by a human personality dwelling in a human body. We are so much more.

The image and likeness of God, is the reflection of Spirit, not of matter or corporeality. This reflected being must express in a way that only Spirit can—infinitely. We are each individually and all collectively the reflection of God’s infinite Truth, Life, and Love. We are not limited in these qualities and they cannot be impaired or lost. Reflection is true to the original. The reflected idea does not have control over its own magnificence, but abides by the very limitless quality that is God.

Know yourself truly. See that the whole of Truth is available to you and inherent in you. This fullness leaves no room for error. Recognize that all the Life there is, is your own being, always in you and with you to be lived. Realize that infinite Love is the substance of your being. You are never wanting in love or incapable of loving others. You reflect love fully and perfectly.

This infinitely vital, good, and lovely character is yours always and now because you are forever the natural and necessary reflection of a boundlessly wonderful God.

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“For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.” (Psalms 84: 10)

A moment with God is full of goodness and satisfaction. Approaching our lives and our work with devotion to God’s purpose, recognition of His control, and an eagerness to obey His ideal, we are always making a favorable choice. It is richly rewarding to feel God’s intention in what we are and what we do. It is satisfying to Him and to us.

The “house of God” is the consciousness of goodness, Truth, and Love. We enter in by our devotion to Him, and therein we have the affection and protection that He bestows on those who are willing to listen and follow. This is a willingness to please God rather than dwelling in “the tents of wickedness”—those temporary, unstable places that are devoted to fleeting material pleasures, accumulating material status and possessions, and the pride that leads to willfulness. Instead, an open, humble, and willing state of mind is able to hear and heed the clear and sweet guidance and feel secure, safe, and content.

A day with God is worth more than a lifetime. It is never wasted time but an eternity realized in a moment and which goes on to bless us as we move forward. Our work, our lives devoted to pleasing God–whatever that means in each new moment–is the best job in the world. It means that we are in harmony with Him, with His abundant qualities of Love, goodness, joy, freedom, productivity, and peace.

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“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.” (Ezekiel 36: 26)

God will renew and refresh us. Our lives are subject to His loving activity upon us and within us. Nothing about us is allowed to remain hard and unyielding, ignorant and weary, angry and hopeless. God will not tolerate ideas of His own which do not accurately express His tender nature and His demand for goodness.

We may feel at times that there are too many human disappointments, too many resentments and fears, for us to release our hearts to Love’s comfort and promises. But God doesn’t try to make an old and damaged heart or an old and damaged individual into a better one. He gives us a brand new heart, a new awareness and acceptance of His Life, His embracing goodness and Love. He reminds us of what Life really is and why it is worth cherishing, living, sharing.

Let’s be ready to give up that heart of stone, that stubborn need to cling to our pains and worries and habitual fears, and to let God give us a loving heart, one that not only can receive freely and gratefully of His goodness and Love, but which has the powerful ability by giving up self-concerns, to perceive the needs of others and so to give of that tender heart’s own natural and boundless ability to love, to bless, and to heal.

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“By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.” (Proverbs 22: 4)

We don’t get wealthy by arrogance, pride, and personal ego. The true riches, those things that constitute our heaven here and now, do not come and cannot remain through such selfish and material motives. It is only by our devotion to God as the divine Providence, the real substance and activity of good, that we can claim and feel true peace, the prosperity of wholeness.

We must discover our inherent humility. We must release ourselves to this natural desire to give up self for the abundance of Soul, to trust God and His loving intention. We must be happy to be children–not petulant kids or bullies–but those sweet and lovable children that a parent can’t help but spoil with attention and loving gifts. God created us as these innocent ones and this is really our true and only being.

How do we accept this sense of being, give up the feeling that we must fight for good or prove ourselves through human endeavor? By Love. As we realize that we are fully loved by God, by the One who saw fit to make us and never mistakes, we can give up that sense of desperate need, and relax into our childlike expectation and fearless joy.

Humility is riches. It sets and settles us in awareness of God’s grace, whereby we have all things wonderful, right, and satisfying.

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“And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” (Mark 12: 33)

In Jesus’s day, burnt offerings were a way to receive heaven’s promises, an expression of faith, and an indication of purity and goodness. It was an aspect of worship and respect for the Almighty. Today, we may not be burning animals as a sign of devotion and a promise of God’s approval, but we have still carried this notion of sacrifice into the modern age.

We may find ourselves feeling we must give up all that we love, things that we feel are necessary for a good life, or a sense of true freedom and joy in order to be devoted to God and His intention. We sometimes feel that poverty and deprivation, constant toil and suffering, are needed in order to be pure and beloved.

But Jesus clearly said that the necessary thing had nothing to do with giving up a happy and active life or our dignity or the things that are honestly dear to us. We simply have to sacrifice anything that does not express love toward another or toward God and His ideal, goodness and Truth. This is the way of salvation and the sacrifice required is not a ritual, but comes through individualized prayer and new understanding.

Jesus, who so well knew his Father-Mother, admonished us that our sacrifice was relinquishing a belief that something good must die in order for us to live. Instead, it was about going forth in the true sense of Life, that which is loving, from the heart, because we know that our God is not punishing and demanding, but is the very substance and activity of perfect Love.

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“The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.” (Psalms 145: 9)

Be calm and grateful. Breathe a sigh of relief and take a pause for reflection. God is goodness itself. He has no evil in Him and He is the very creator of your being, your substance, your life. God’s nature makes no exceptions. He is fully and always perfect good, absolute Love.

All of us are subject to God’s government, to His control and His law. This does not leave us in danger or subject to chance. We are all governed by tender mercy, God’s own necessary care for His adored ideas. Divine Mind never made an unlovable idea or one that was not acceptable to Him. Perfect Mind doesn’t make mistakes. He can’t conceive of an idea that is not worthy of His name, not capable of testifying to His glory.

No one is out of reach of His mercy, too far gone in materiality or fear or ignorance. His Love spans all that He made and mercy is a necessary aspect of Love. His loving care is just and true. It exposes and removes the faulty beliefs and makes a place for the tender caress to be fully felt, acknowledged, and accepted. We can be free of pity for ourselves and others knowing the depth and measure and flawless activity of God’s mercy toward all. We are all blessed to be who we are—sons and daughters of divine Love.

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“The age has not wholly outlived the sense of ghostly beliefs. It still holds them more or less. Time has not yet reached eternity, immortality, complete reality.” (Science and Health, page 353)

The enlightened thinker can’t keep on believing in “ghosts”– in unreal specters that project fear and deathly beliefs upon the innocent. Mrs. Eddy’s marginal heading for this paragraph is “superstition obsolete.” She saw that one couldn’t continue to cling to those superstitions, those expectations and fears based on ominous and unreasonable notions about life.

This thinking is obsolete. It is no longer useful or relevant to us. And yet, it seems that we sometimes still hold to such ghoulish beliefs and we may not even be aware of it. Claiming the reality of Life as under God’s control, secure and safe, harmonious and loving, we can break those superstitions and the fear that they engender and perpetuate in the way we live.

It’s not just about black cats and haunted houses. The superstitions of today are more subtle and because of that may be more dangerous. We need to turn the light on to them, and agree to believe only that which comes from a point of reason, from the Mind that is Love. The idea of bad luck, chance, and accident are superstitious. The expectation that there has to be a down side to every up side is a superstition. A fascination with evil and its workings is a devious belief that needs to be seen for its deception.

Complete reality may not be fully realized, but that’s no excuse for lingering with the unreal and perpetuating a long night full of scary ghost stories. We are awake to the hoax. We have the Christ to break that mesmerism and show us that a trust in God, good, Love, keeps us safe from trouble. This is a light to every shadow and gives us fearless fun in every new day!

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“…Well done, good and faithful servant. Thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” (Matthew 25: 23)

There are a few things necessary for our joy, for that true happiness that can only be found in God, in infinite Spirit and Truth. We must be faithful to those things in order to take hold of our dominion over the earth, our sense of natural peace and abundant life.

God requires that we recognize Him and utilize the understanding, the gifts that He has given us. If we waste the blessings and take them for granted, we aren’t learning a thing about divine Love and so we are not able to actively live out Her promises. Our faithfulness is not a sacrifice. It is about living life and not squandering it. It is about a daily awareness of and commitment to God’s loving guidance for our lives and how they can truly bless others.

Selfishness as well as a lack of trust in one’s own ability is not faithfulness. God is daily feeding us with sufficient goodness and inspiration and enough to spread it around. Our faithfulness to God is our trust that what He says is true—we are His beloved and we are blessed beyond measure. To deny this and live in doubt of ourselves or competition with others is not being faithful, and it makes for meager, joyless living.

Be the faithful servant to goodness, to love, to the Truth of your own heritage. Sing forth your love in all that you do, and joy will welcome you every morning into its full embrace and sing you to sleep at night.

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

“Nothing is new to Spirit. Nothing can be novel to eternal Mind, the author of all things, who from all eternity knoweth His own ideas.” (Science and Health, page 519)

Our Father-Mother-Mind has completed all His ideas. He is intimately and fully aware of every aspect of His creation. Nothing is unknown to Him and everything in Truth meets with His high standards of excellence, harmony, goodness, and love.

The Author of all Life knows how the story turns out. He’s already conceived of all so each day that we experience is the unfolding of another blossom in His fully formed bloom. God’s vision is clear and complete. His design is without flaw and nothing surprises Him or throws Him off. He is in full awareness of all that is right and necessary, and He is able to reveal each right step, each perfect day, in a way that is most pleasing, right, timely, and good.

God knows you well and He knows His plan for you. Relax, and trust His revelation. You are not the burdened creator of a new project, a productive day, a child, or a life. God has already made all, and He is able to reveal and express this all in its perfect order for His own children.

Stay expectant and grateful. Your job is to bear witness to God’s goodness, not to personally build it or will it into life. Love the fact that while you may not know the beginning and the ending of a right endeavor, it is already complete in God’s Mind, every detail crafted to bless. His work is perfectly, efficiently done and the outcome we await may surprise us, but it will always be just right.

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.