Being Free Now

“…every good endowment that we possess and every complete gift that we have received must come from above, from the Father of all lights, with whom there is never the slightest variation or shadow of inconsistency.”  (James 1: 17, JB Phillips New Testament)

Go back to the Source. Take a conscious look at the reason why you are blessed and the same reason that you can never be deprived of anything good and right. Our God has given us our talents, our intelligence, the very love we feel in our hearts, and the ability to carry out great goodness with healing results. His flawless nature is our guarantee of enduring blessings.

Our God is “the Father of all lights.” He is not the creator of darkness, deprivation, fear, loss, lack. He is not a God of randomness and neglect. His lights are eternal flames and they burn within us and for us, leading us to Himself, to the Almighty One Who is Love known and expressed. God is the Infinite Giver and His gifts are always fitting, lovingly bestowed, perfectly timed, and satisfying in all ways to everyone.

You are exceptional, but you are not the exception. You were not left out of when divine Life gave out His gifts. He knew exactly what He was doing when He consciously caused you and He has never and would never cast a shadow of doubt on His own handiwork. His pleasure in you is His consistent sustaining of you. Everything you are comes of God’s own substance, His qualities; your nature glorifies His very being. You are always and now a celebration of His gloriousness. See and accept that your life glows with a light that no shadows of material belief and disbelief can ever dim. You are gifted, God is pleased, and the world is blessed by your living light.

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.

“…if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” (Matthew 5: 23-24)

We cannot truly honor God if we are at the same time harboring anger toward one of His ideas. The gift of our devotion is not full and true if it includes something so averse to His Mind, His Principle. Hatred and resentment can’t bring us the full blessing we desire. We must cleanse the anger with Love if we are to truly feel the health and well-being and peace we pray to receive.

Obedience to divine Love requires us to be loving. Anything contrary to this love is disobedience, and it may lead us to feel less protected and blessed by that law of Love. We are built of the substance of Love, so it goes against everything that we are to be angry or feel hatred. That’s why such feelings so often seem accompanied by discomfort, physically as well as mentally. They are an unnatural intrusion on our natural purity and goodness.

Drawing close to God is our salvation and strength. It is always worth the effort to set aside our anger and so to find Love’s perfect remedy. It may not always be easy to reconcile with our brother, an act which always begins in thought. But God helps us to do this. He shows us that His Love and His Principle are one, and His supreme wisdom assures that all can awake to see their own errors and to find a truer sense of goodness. Your gift to God is your genuine love. This gift is a gift to yourself as well.

Cherish love, not resentment. Your health and disposition will improve and you will feel more like yourself, that child of God that is peaceful, poised, good, and happy.

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.

“And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.” (Exodus 33: 11)

We have an intimate friend in God. We have an understanding confidante and a trusty advisor who will never fail us. Moses experienced this tender relationship in the midst of his daunting task to lead a people to freedom, against all human odds. The great burning bush experience that initially got Moses’ attention and awe was not God’s necessary method of communication. He doesn’t need pyrotechnics to get His thoughts across to us.

God is ready to speak with us as our friend and we can commune with him in the same way. Communing means “talking with intimately.” Our prayer to this infinite Love is an intimate connection with Him. We can enter into our communion, our open-hearted prayer, with this sense of being ourselves with a friend. Let’s realize the nearness of God to us as well as the natural ease of this presence with us and for us.

When I read descriptions of the prayer times of Jesus or Mary Baker Eddy, I am struck by how natural this communion was. There was a readiness to listen and a joy in doing so, eagerness in hearing what our Friend should say that would be so right and full of understanding. With these inspired healers there was also the spirit of honest and free questioning, not as one would to a Deity but as one would to someone very close, one in whom there was complete trust. They felt they could humbly reveal right where they were in their thoughts and needs, and this led to healing. God speaks in the language of Love for He is Love. This pure affection is so easy to talk to and natural to listen to and so to gratefully receive answers, comfort, and peace.

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“I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.” (Revelation 3: 8)

God knows what you have done. He knows who you are. He knows the thoughts in your heart and your intentions. Because of His perfect awareness of the truth of you, He also knows what you are capable of. He knows that you include in you the potential for greatness and true satisfaction in it.

And so He sets before you that open door. It may seem that material circumstances close off the portals to true success and contentment. But no man or mortal concept can shut what God has left wide open. It is He that is Life–your life–and He knows where that wonderful life is going and how glorious it simply must be. He sees the goodness that is you, even when you don’t see it yourself, and He awakens you and the world to that radiant Truth of you.

We are constantly being beckoned through that open door to progress and peace. There is nothing holding us back and the password is only our desire to know God, good, and by doing so to also realize our own innocence, His control, and the good life that has more to do with a lasting peace and joy than with fleeting human achievement.  God knows the work of His hand. He knows what He made and He will never hide His glory from the world or from you, His own beloved child.

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“God is at once the centre and circumference of being.” (Science and Health, page 204)

God, good, perfect Love, is the very core of all being. At the same time, He is the boundary of all Life. Everything exists because at its heart is God–divine Life, Truth, and Love–and so all expresses this flawless purpose, this inmost requirement for its nature and action.

And nothing can ever move outside of God, outside of His Principle, His Spirit, His Presence and intention. His infinite embrace is the outer perimeter to all being, all life, and we can never cross that border and step out of His care, out of His boundless circle of Life and Love. God is both the intimate and the ultimate of all things. His reason for Life is at the heart of us, and His expression remains loyal to His perfect Love for us.

Wherever you believe another may be or wherever you think that you are in any moment does not change the law of God’s infinite nature. He is always going to be our heartbeat and our breath. He is always going to be the place where you are headed and the place where you have been. God, good, is your divine destiny and only destination—the fire of life within and the flame that will always lead you home.

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“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)

This has been called the Golden Rule. It is golden because it is so valuable, its governing Principle a gem in our lives to be treasured and obeyed. This precious instruction seems to me to be at the heart of all the good that comes in the world and disobedience to it constitutes all the discord that appears between individuals and nations. If we weigh every action against this ideal, we will be forces for good in the world and will benefit ourselves as well.

Jesus shared this pure idea in his Sermon on the Mount. In this sermon he also reminds us that to think evil, to judge another as less than our equal–a fellow child of God–is inadmissible and has no place in Christian living and healing. This radiant rule includes not only our actions, but also our thoughts. If we think less of another, and then put on an act with them, this is hypocrisy and lacks the genuine goodness that Jesus is punctuating in his teaching. Would we ourselves want to have someone treat us well and speak ill of us behind our backs? Would we not feel the dishonesty from them? Likewise, thinking less of another is beneath our own goodness, and it will never give us the freedom and peace of mind that really suits us and satisfies us.

This is not a difficult task. The golden rule was meant to be natural to us. Why? Because love is natural to us. We are built of divine Love’s intentions and when we receive eagerly that wonderful love of God, we can’t help but feel the need to share it in all its qualities—understanding, respect, kindness, mercy, receptivity, trust.

Utilize this Golden Rule in your own life and pray to know that this vital ideal is the world’s to claim as well. The hatred and competition and envy that seem to drive the actions of people and nations and to tarnish this golden harmony, can be washed away. Divine Love can do it and we can be a part of an earth that knows heavenly peace.

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“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?” (Psalms 139: 7)

Take a moment and listen for the answer to these questions. Come to recognize that there will never be an occasion or circumstance where God isn’t present, with us right where we are. Because He is ever-present, we can never be too far away from Him, and there are no exceptions to this fact. We simply can’t hide from His eyes when He is all-seeing Mind. We can’t escape the infinite All-in-all.

And we should never want to. God is never going to banish us from Himself because of human ignorance or disobedience. We may turn our eyes from His grace by our belief that we have power apart from Him, but we will never leave His Mind; we are His very thoughts and His Mind would be incomplete without every idea His great wisdom conceived. He knows right where we are and just who we really are. This is our comfort, not our shame. He knows our goodness, our sweetness, our lovableness, and He wants us near Him.

Human love may leave us and we may leave it or lose it, but the divine Presence is always with you and in you. It constitutes your very life and being, so you are inseparable from it. This divine Love will always be with you, by your side and on your side. It is divine Life, so it is an active, living Presence, and it is divine Love, unconditional Love, so it will never exclude you or forget you.

Know and feel this Spirit, this divine nature, embracing and infusing your life. There is nowhere to hide and no reason to. You are right where you need to be and you are never alone.

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“The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.” (Numbers 6: 24-26)

Who doesn’t need a good benediction? Isn’t a blessing such as this one accepted into our hearts as meant just for us, such a wonderful and healing thing to receive? Everything that this tender wish extends to us is honestly what God already and always is giving us.

Our mighty and tender God is always blessing you and keeping you. His face, His smile of approval and eyes that see you truly, is shining directly upon you. You are always face-to-face with the Truth of His Love. You can’t avoid this gaze of God and your own active, natural reflection of all the good that is in Him, in infinite Spirit–the Life that is pure goodness and completeness and joy.

God’s unwavering attention is His graceful graciousness. The benediction of His presence is our sweet release to all that is right and satisfying and full of love. His countenance lifted, His active glee at our being, is our guarantee of the good life, His Life. God is always looking at you and looking after you, with delight at doing it. Accept this blessing willingly. It is yours perpetually, and its promise and immediate reward is peace.

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“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” (I Peter 5: 6-7)

Does it seem that every day we need this instruction again? It seems so easy to forget that our strength, our certainty, our provision, our success, our comfort is not dependent on a personal ability to keep it all together, to control our world and its varied variables. We are not in charge of life and responsible either for its achievements or for its failures.

Humility is our answer and God’s demand. He is Father. He is Mother. He is Governor and Keeper. He is Creator. He is the only Mind and the true Love. And He is goodness in action. We don’t worship other gods. We have learned that idols have no real power. So, we must give up the worship of our own egos. We must give up a belief that another god called “me” has the power to accomplish anything or fail to do so. Reliance on God alone shows us all that is clearly right and satisfying.

Cast your care upon the One who is care itself. Come before God with an undivided worship and trust. Let yourself be loved by Him. It is out of your hands and this is the solution to your every worry. God has the world. He requires its harmony. He is the infinite Caretaker. You can never be out of His sight or out of His hands. So willingly and joyfully humble yourselves under His might, and feel the triumph of real freedom and a glowing gratitude for this sweet and powerful release.

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“The eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have learned from error, and man’s real existence as a child of God comes to light.” (Science and Health 288: 31-1)

Truth is always maintaining the facts of our origin and writing our beautiful life story. The perfect Word of God about our identity cancels out, erases, that wrong solution that we may have worked out humanly. Material circumstances of birth and growth and the human sense of life they present to us are not the real story, not our true history or a true harbinger of our future.

Man is a child of God. All that the human sense seems to have learned from error, the limited and faulty and discouraging material view, is lost in the recognition of the Truth. If we have a math problem we have been doing wrong for years and now realize the true answer and the reason why, we no longer need to factor in the wrong answer, nor would we want to. We just begin with the truth, the solution that really works, and erase the old without hesitation. We don’t cling to 2 + 2 = 5. We replace it with the truth we now realize and use that going forward.

The mistakes and miseries of human experience–the guilt and the shame and the blame and the frustration–do not make a mess of things, of God’s Life-design. You are still His idea. You are still the result of His perfect and peaceful law in operation. As the Truth comes to light that God is Love and the only and perpetual Source of all, we can no longer accept what we seem to have learned. It no longer rings true. It doesn’t help us at all today.

Don’t cling to the false and the unproductive. Start with the right premise and its proper result and go forth with praise, promise, prosperity, and peace!

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