Being Free Now

“Don’t worry about anything, but pray about everything…Then…God will bless you with peace that no one can completely understand. And this peace will control the way you think and feel.” (Philippians 4: 6-7, Contemporary English Version)

Worrying will never get you anywhere. It isn’t powerful and it isn’t useful. It takes us away from the Source of all the answers instead of drawing us to the Truth that saves and heals. We don’t worry not because we are blind to trouble that seems to appear, but because we know the solution is found in prayer, that consecration and expectation that reveals perfect harmony. And this is peace.

I love this translation because it is so clear: less worrying, more praying; more praying, more peace; more peace, more control over thought and feeling. So, we are rescued from our fears, our anxieties, and our burdened thought by ceasing the human ruminating and fretting. To worry is to ply away at something ceaselessly, to concentrate efforts on the problem and not to let it go. And doing that wastes effort and keeps us focused on the problem, unable then to see the presence of the solution.

Let’s keep our grip on God and His thoughts, rather than the useless worry. That peace that comes of prayer, of quiet release to Love and the expectation of help and healing, will usher in all that is needed. It will bring inspiration, human guidance, and turn our eyes away from inward fixation and mesmerism, outward and upward where the available miracles can be seen and accepted into life.

Pray about everything. Nothing is too small. If you find yourself worrying, replace the futility with the usefulness of prayer and find that present and easy and natural blessing which is sweet peace.

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“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (I John 4: 4)

The children have taken over and the world is blessed for it! That vibrant, eager, loving, receptivity that is in us, is greater than that egotistical and cynical soul that argues in the world and in human thought. Jesus, the Truth-teller, assured us that our childlikeness was the way into heaven. Our pure and expectant thought and release to God’s care is the answer to heaven on earth, for the earth.

That seeming battle we have within us is a foregone victory for God and so for us, His beloved. That sense of double-mindedness, of guilt versus innocence, of shame versus confidence, of damage versus newness simply can’t continue. The right side must win, for the Christ within always overcomes, it is that which transcends death and anything deathly, anything that is not full of life and truth and love.

We are the little children of God, the sweet ones who win out, bless and save the world, through our very overcoming, through that power that comes by releasing ourselves to the Father-Mother and acting like ourselves, like the children of Soul that we are. Don’t fight the kid in you. Claim it, nurture it, embrace it, enjoy it, and announce with glee that heaven is here, and that all are welcome to come out of the darkness to play!

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“In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply.” (Science and Health, page 206)

God’s relationship to man is scientific, based on fact, provable. This truth of man’s oneness with God, the Source of all good, is our assurance that we can never be in need. The divine Mind is wise and that Mind is Love, so the substance of our supply is always rightly distributed, timely, sufficient. Spirit has no limits, and it always fulfills the law of righteousness and love.

A blessing to one cannot come as deprivation to another. God’s plenty is boundless and active. His purpose is always at hand to be claimed and seen by all. The human senses would always seem to limit our supply to that which is material and therefore finite. It would try to trick us into thinking that there are not enough fishes to go around, not enough money, not enough jobs, not enough men or women, not enough opportunity, not enough talent, not enough health, not enough joy.

But our loaves are love and our fishes are faith. Divine Love recognized as the Source of our good and the substance of it, opens up our lives to the influx, the revelation of that which is not only good but is just right. And this rightness, Mind’s sweet design, means an abundance of perfect good for all. Spirit is flowing with showers of plenty, here, now, and without exception. It’s a fact!

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“For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.” (Isaiah 60:20)

The darkness of fear, discord, war, and disease that seems to enshroud the earth and dim human hope is prepared for the bright and shining light of God’s grace, the Truth of things revealed.  The reality of life is not lost, nor can it be. Life is God, and is light, a natural and necessary wholeness, peace, and a joy that is deep and true.

God, Spirit, alone can bring the light that breaks the illusion and that awakens man to his true nature and the perfect design of the earth that belongs to Him. Material methods and material science can’t uncover heaven’s promises, or lead us home to our bliss. Only God, divine Love, has this power to thoroughly bless, to show us what is real, what is more than simply acceptable, but is truly right and satisfying.

The light of God is our own glory revealed, for He is the brightness of our own being expressed. God put His radiance within us. It is the healing power that resides already with us, never separate, always intact, never dimmed despite the human sense delusions. We are glorious and so is our wonderful earth, because the light of God is infinite, and it is unquenchable, perfect, alive, enduring, and ours!

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“The Lord lifteth up the meek:..” (Psalms 147:6)

In meekness there is power. We submit to God’s righteous control over our lives and in that we are blessed with enjoying His intelligent design, harmonious experience, and the recognition that all things are possible. The meekness that releases us to God’s righteousness gives us courage and a victory over evil that is not a fight, but is a surrender to a natural triumph, already accomplished.

To be meek, is to “manifest patience and long-suffering…to endure injury without resentment.” Meekness is not being a passive doormat. It is not tolerating in order to do “the right thing.” It is a conscious awareness that all is well, that an individual or a circumstance does not have any power over God’s law of righteousness and of love. This meekness we can claim is a sweet relief that there is no reason to be riled or disturbed, to feel hurt or maligned, for we know we are loved and that God’s justice does not make any exceptions. We are in the hands of that which is infallibly right to and for all.

Listen for the angel of meekness speaking to you now. Accept that whisper from your heart that wants to let go and let Love be the defining and designing factor in all things. We have been given this meekness and taught well of it by Jesus. His triumphant meekness is our example. Jesus was not a push-over, nor was he arrogant in his confidence. He simply expressed his divine sonship, that glorious gentle power that comes of knowing that he, as we, are one with the Almighty Truth that is Love and so we are at peace!

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“Ever since the foundation of the world, ever since error would establish material belief, evil has tried to slay the Lamb; but Science is able to destroy this lie, called evil.” (Science and Health, page 568)

The Lamb, that sweet message of purity, innocence, promise, renewal, is constantly under attack. That which would uplift humanity to a true awareness of God, of that divine inheritance of freedom, seems to be drowned out by the noise of mortal minds, of a belief in egos that must have power, of matter that must have life, of that which makes the simple complicated.

Christian Science is able to destroy this evil by revealing its powerlessness. The Lamb, that which is the pure idea held in the Shepherd’s safe embrace, can’t be slain for it dwells in God, Who is Omnipotent Life. The truth about God and man can’t be assailed or ended, despite the world’s attempts to hide it. Material beliefs would seem to empower shrewdness over wisdom, ambition over humility, competition over oneness, and need over abundance.

But, the Truth protects this innocent Lamb even when it seems to be constantly barraged with accusations and limitations. That gentle idea of Soul’s anointing, has the power of God within it, and it must emerge unharmed and victorious. Let’s not allow the world’s lies to slay our lamb, to turn our sweetness into bitterness or our exuberance into complacency or resignation. Let’s yield to our own innocence and let the Shepherd lead us home to peace, power, and joy!

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The apostle says: “For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.” This thought of human, material nothingness, which Science inculcates, enrages the carnal mind and is the main cause of the carnal mind’s antagonism.” (Science and Health, page 345)

The ego, that carnal mind that wants to be master of its own fate, clings to any control it may appear to have. That thought of self as separate from God, as its own creator and subject to its own frailties or strengths, fights for a life it does not have, a power it cannot possibly possess.

We are deceiving ourselves and suffering the consequences of such a blindness, when we assume that the human personal sense of ourselves is anything at all. We are “nothing” in this sense, for matter and separation are untruths. But, the great fact is that we are at one with the something, the grand and noble and perfect and powerful all-presence that is God’s own Being. So this giving up of self is a gain of an individuality that is sparkling with beauty, potential, originality, and limitless life. It expresses God’s qualities naturally rather than those quirks of personality that we would claim make us up and determine our happiness or our hell.

The “carnal mind” wants to keep its false concept alive. It would have us always fighting, up and then down, winning one day, losing the next day, feeling powerful and then overwhelmed, when truly it doesn’t know a thing about us and our life. God is All and we can rest in the fact that we belong to Him. We are nothing of ourselves, but everything in the expansive expression of His Life, Truth and Love.

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“Man is more than a material form with a mind inside, which must escape from its environments in order to be immortal. Man reflects infinity, and this reflection is the true idea of God.” (Science and Health, page 258)

You are not trapped in a body, a physical form, or a circumstance. You are not confined to age or gender or environment. You are not caged in physiology or limited by psychology. You are free, free, free!

Let us recognize and accept with joy and gratitude that we are not yearning for escape from a condition, for we have never been bound by it. Our freedom is based on the infinitude of our expressiveness, that which is our nature, and therefore always ours to know and to feel and to experience. We reflect God’s boundlessness, His qualities expressed everywhere and eternally, permanently, without a single lapse or lag. The life that we desire, the freedom that we crave, is God-given and can’t be withdrawn or hidden by a belief in matter. Nothing will ever make matter real, when Spirit is All and in all.

The limits that the senses would parade before us are not valid before the infinite law and activity of spiritual Love. Nothing can confine the qualities of Life, God, and so we, too are unconfinable. We are capable of all things, and we are free to be free, without waiting for material permission, material compliance, a material death, or a material cure. Our heaven is found in the very fact of our birthright, that freedom which is infinite yet safe and gently and wisely controlled by the divine Mind Who never fails to perfectly Love us.

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“We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” (I John 3: 14, 15)

Any lack of love is a killer. Anything less than a loving regard for our brothers and sisters, our kindred of God’s own family, is deadly to our expression of life and its fullness and completeness and peace. Let no sense of hatred abide in your thought. Uncover it and cast it out as if it were a poison to your system, a threat to your well-being or to those that you most love.

Eternal life, a living Life, can only be found in God, Who is Love. Where love does not abide, life is lacking, less seen. We feel depleted, defeated, and unlike our true selves, because, in Truth, we have a natural and abiding love within us, and it extends to all. This love is of God, so it is unconditional and it sees reality, rather than ignorance, personal sense, fear, human confusion or delusion. God’s eye sees the truth of His children, and we, with the heart of Love guiding us, can see this, too. And then life is full, and fully expressed.

God, Truth doesn’t condone misbehavior, unrighteousness, selfishness, or hateful acts among His children. He does not leave those things untouched and unpunished. Love obliterates the belief in separateness, in ignorance, in misunderstanding. It reveals the presence of harmony, always intact. Let us truly live by loving. Love God and His Truth, and know that there is nothing unloving or unlovable in Him. Every idea must necessarily and naturally be worthy of a living, life-giving Love. So, let’s celebrate everlasting life and be full in our love for God and man, ourselves and our own lovely and lovable lives.

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“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” (Psalms 27: 13)

Without hope, without faith, without expectation of good in our lives, we would surely give up. Without this natural and ever-present encouragement of Truth and of Love, this vision of victory, we would continue to live a lie, a life of doubt and cynicism and fear. But this is not our fate. We do believe. And Christian Science opens up to us the forever fact that not only is there a heaven, but that heaven is not something that awaits us in some elusive hereafter.

We can “see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” We are able to perceive and experience God’s creation in our lives, here and now, even in this limited concept we call earth. Jesus came to tell us this, and the forever-assuring Christ delivered the good news to the Psalmists centuries before. Our confidence is in this. We know that we can persist, never give up, and rejoice even when the way isn’t perfectly clear, because we know what we know. We know that Life is God and that His presence and power and love is more than a hope. It is reality.

So agree to and accept what you know to be true, what Truth itself has written in your heart: God is All and His goodness is here and now to be realized. Let this be the staff that keeps you from falling, and the light that keeps you from going into the sleep of discouragement. Our God is actively claiming us, renewing us, expressing His Life through us and His Love to us, right here, right now. Believe and rejoice.

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