Being Free Now

“The divine Principle of all expresses Science and art throughout His creation, and the immortality of man and the universe.” (Science and Health, page 507)

Our divine Principle, God, is all that is right and good. He is the primary and only Source of all that is expressed. From Principle proceeds every right thought and action, all that constitutes reality, substance, life. This Principle is Soul. Within Soul every beautiful and pleasing and fruitful thing has its origin and its fullness and is ready for perfect expression.

And so we see. We hear. We move and feel and love. The universe is constantly and rightly showing forth that which God saw fit to make. It announces His precision and safety, His consistency and reliability, His infinite variety and His sweet simplicity. That which regulates all life, this Science of goodness and Truth and Love, is forever being faithfully upheld and perpetuated. Nothing can impede this harmony.

And Principle’s boundless fullness is irrepressible. It must be expressed in ways beyond the “practical.” It extends into those life-giving ideas that are art and music, artistry and poetry, drama and dance, the creativity and beauty that touches us in places that we cannot articulate, because they are beyond the worldly. God’s spiritual creation misses nothing and embraces all. Every moment we are bearing witness to God’s word and works, His ideas, His brilliance, His surprises. Every detail of being is His and ours to have, to know, and to love.

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“…the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.” (Judges 5: 13)

There is nothing too strong or powerful or insistent that we cannot triumph over it. God gave us dominion over those seeming powers of matter and of evil. We are never weak victims. We are never destined to simply roll over and take all that life, time, circumstance, human limiting opinion would throw at us.

The Lord gave you and me, very specific and intentional dominion. There is nothing that can oppose God’s goodness and overrule or run over His law of love. So, we, as His natural expression and His beloved, are also capable of putting down those aspersions on our peace, those unnatural impositions on His order, His rightness, His harmony, that which constitutes our blessed and protected life.

Don’t be wimpy about your dominion. Even at what seems to be your weakest moment, you are bigger than the most aggressive evil. You have this power not because you are humanly bold or brave, but because God demands His greatness be seen and expressed. He expects and accepts nothing less than His Life, that which proves His loving Principle and radiates His nature as well as His reign and tender control over all. Recognize and utilize with firmness and faith your supremacy over errors great and small. God granted us full dominion at the beginning, at the origin, and He has never taken away that right, our victory. We are on top of it all, small and mighty!

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“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” (Matthew 7:15)

False prophets can appear in many forms. They may or may not be malicious or greedy or charlatans. They may look benign and harmless, or seem inspired and inspiring,  but in the end disturb our peace, engender more fear, and keep us caged when the goal is freedom.

We must and can be alert to these alluring individuals and ideas. We don’t need to be paranoid about it, lacking trust and expectation, but we can listen and rely on that inner voice that tells us there is a cause for a pause. We can receive gratefully any good ideas from individuals without turning them into our savior, our better, our mediator with God. We can be open to other forms of worship or different opinions about life, without assuming that what works for one is really right for us.

Perhaps the most persistent and most accepted “wolf” is that presentation of the material senses. The physical picture and the world’s accompanying thought on this unreality can lure us into a dangerous den. The testimony of matter will always be a false prophet. Only Spirit speaks Truth, and it will never lead us into danger, into fear, into lack of peace, into anger or frustration or pain. The wolves of sense are a pack of lies!

So, we can be aware of the disguises and reject those liars from our thought, making room instead for the true prophets, those angel voices that assure, awaken, and heal.

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“A mother’s affection cannot be weaned from her child, because the mother-love includes purity and constancy, both of which are immortal. Therefore maternal affection lives on under whatever difficulties.” (Science and Health, page 60)

In the human sense, a mother’s love may appear to come and go, to be variable depending on personality traits, experiences, tendencies. A mother may not be doting and consistent in pouring love out on a child. But a mother’s love still remains in spite of behavioral reactions and responses and separations, because there is that bond that expresses that oneness with the child, the ideal that comes of God, the true Mother of all.

Let’s recognize that true Mother-love, and see its evidence everywhere. Our Mother, God, is always consistently loving, always knowing the whereabouts of Her child (physically as well as in thought), understanding the child’s needs, whether that child be a little one or a mother herself. The protecting affection of divine Motherhood has no bounds, no limits, no distance or separation. It does not lose strength as a child grows to adulthood, passes through experiences, or misbehaves.

We are always being mothered by divine Love. Our children and our parents are receiving that same tenderness and wisdom, that unbreakable devotion, that pure unconditional loving care always, just as we are receiving it. So we are all brothers and sisters, loved equally by a Mother with boundless affection to give, and we are safe in that perfect, unifying, satisfying embrace.

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“Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon its object.” (Science and Health, page 248)

We are holy because we are loved by Love. We are made magnificent and blessed and protected by the Father-Mother’s affection and approval. Her spiritual love for us is our sanctity, our wholeness, our ability to show forth the glory that belongs to the divine nature. God’s constant eye on us is that tender regard that makes us always beautiful, just as a loved one is always lovely to us; just as receiving the love of another makes us feel more adorable, more like ourselves.

God’s halo rests upon us. Accept its presence. Know who you are, what divine Love has caused you to be. You have a natural hue of holiness about you. Bathed in God’s light, ordained by His approving smile, you have an angelic presence and power. You have a gentle energy and a natural authority. You walk with God’s blessing on you, your hand always in His, your life the effortless expression of the love He has for you, His own great idea.

Don’t let anyone try to knock your halo off! Don’t accept a lesser image of yourself than God, Truth, sees. Don’t take your own halo off, either or reject it. You can keep it on and still be humble, for you didn’t put it there, God and His love did. So wear it as you would a gift from a loved one—with gratitude, proudly, and with an awareness that it is fitting, right, and yours to keep!

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“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” (Romans 13:1)

No person, no government, no organization, no material establishment can overrule God’s reign of Truth and Love. Everything and everyone is subject to God, to the one power, and He alone has the ability and right to ordain and sanction that which rules over creation—over men and nations.

There is no power but that which comes of God, good. Evil has no power, and there is no power in greed, in deception, in ignorance. If all power belongs to God and proceeds from Him, then the only real control, potency, strength, capacity must be wise and loving, must express the nature and substance of its Source.

We are under a reign of benevolence, not tyrannical governing by rulers or bosses or family members who may seem unkind or without understanding. Neither is our body subject to unloving and untrustworthy material systems and limits. Every idea answers to God, to Love, and so even those in human positions of power must obey Him; His justice and judgment are the first and final word. Let us know and rest in the fact that we each are subject to those higher powers, those spiritual truths that are never deposed, and let’s accept the presence of our peace. The powers that be know us and love us!

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“Sin and sickness will abate and seem less real as we approach the scientific period, in which mortal sense is subdued and all that is unlike the true likeness disappears.”

The false sense that appears so vivid and aggressive, announcing prolific diseases and rampant sinfulness, darkness, and pain is giving itself up. The “scientific period” is that time in which we become conscious of the unreality of evil and the broad and all-encompassing and indisputable reality of good. The solid sense of matter and its control is fading away. Even the material scientists seem now to doubt its substance and are observing the mental and spiritual more closely.

The Christian Scientist is at the forefront of this new era, already ahead of the crowd and prepared to assert and demonstrate that we have already entered our heaven. We must rejoice in this awareness. We can stand firm as the worldly thought catches on and catches up, until it finally lets go of the need to cling to material disappointments and inconclusiveness, and to welcome in the clear and beautiful reality of God’s goodness, Spirit’s ever-presence, and Mind’s omniscience and satisfaction.

Staying with the Truth of being, leading the pack, demonstrating the facts as we understand them, we will bear witness to sin and sickness fading away, its mesmerizing hold being lost and the focus of all attention being drawn more to that which is real and powerfully healing. As we subdue the mortal sense of things individually, there is more light in the world, more of the true likeness appearing and so hope is stirred for all. Such hope opens wide the door to heaven, here and now, universally claimed, understood, and lived.

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“But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10: 40-42)

Are you a Mary or a Martha? Perhaps a little bit of both? It seems pretty clear whose behavior Jesus found to be more right and lasting and healing. Mary was poised and ready, open to listening to God’s work, able to be still and to be silent to receive of the blessings of the good news. She recognized that what the Master would reveal to her would more than take care of the nagging human needs of that day and days to come.

Martha, on the other hand, felt burdened by her human goodness, encumbered with cares of the household, of being an appropriate host, a good mortal, presenting a perfect home. Her intentions were good, and we certainly all do need to take care of our daily business as well as be welcoming and kind to others. But we can’t let this constant busy-ness be at the expense of even one healing truth whispering to us, unheard in the din of our own rushing about. Jesus was not angry at Martha for her bustling about, but he, as always, wanted to relieve her of the burden and to show her the way to peace.

How often are we “careful and troubled about many things,” lingering both mentally and with our actions upon the petty details of life, the ins and outs of making sure everything is just right humanly, perfect, in its place? Jesus’ kind alert to Martha was not given to shame her, but to invite her in. To let her know that she, too, could relax and be washed in the spiritual good, the word that would not take away from the perfect setting, but reveal it even more, show the heaven that is never found through human doing and always found through divine grace.

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“Moral courage is ‘the lion of the tribe of Juda,’ the king of the mental realm. Free and fearless it roams in the forest. Undisturbed it lies in the open field, or rests in ‘green pastures,…beside the still waters.’” (Science and Health, page 514)

The lion-like bravery that comes of claiming and standing with Principle is a freedom and a protection and a peace. That moral courage is not arrogance or blindness to challenge, but a serenity that comes of being at one with the divine purpose, that which is omnipotent, ever-present Love.

We can do the right thing, walk in the right path, doing unto others and doing right for ourselves, and maintain that power that is at the same time quietness and calm. We are strong in feeling our dominion everywhere, because we are shored up by those qualities that have no vulnerability, no argument, which can’t be shaken or accused. Our innocence is our shield from attack, and our faithfulness to Truth, is that sword that is conscious discernment, able to separate fearlessly that which is wrong from that which is not only right, but is just right and loving for all.

There is a calm rest in this moral courage. It is never a burden or a sacrifice. We have claimed who we really are, the very image and likeness and expression of God Himself, and in this there is no striving, but a simplicity of being. We walk in confident certainty, because we feel like ourselves, true to who we are, comfortable in our lives, ready for anything and ashamed of nothing. And this moral strength is not a human accomplishment, but divine grace. It is not gaining or giving up anything. It is acceptance. It is walking with a humble pride that we are God’s own ideal, His representative, and so we are in control, safe, and at peace.

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