Do you know your “true north?”
Finding true north is a term often used by those who feel lost and need to get back on course to be successful at whatever they’re doing.
For instance, if a worker feels lost in his job, not sure why he goes to work in the morning, it’s a sign that he needs to find his true north. He needs to figure out what his life is all about and get focused on demonstrating it.
To live successfully and have our days filled with significant accomplishment, we need to know our true north.
In Christian Science, God is true north. Everything in life is about expressing, knowing, and living out God’s reality.
As Jesus instructed, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength’”
(Mark 12:29,30, NLT).
Anything of worth and value comes from God. To set God as our true north, is to seek happiness in expressing God, to seek wealth in knowing God, to seek health in reflecting God.
To seek happiness, health or purpose in some type of material indulgence or gratification, is to seek God where God is never found. It leads to an eventual feeling of emptiness and lack. It is symptomatic of losing one’s true north and is a call to get one’s spiritual compass back out, consult it, and get back on track with seeking all good in God.
When we know our true north, we know what direction to head.
All good is God and of God.
Look to God for your reason and purpose for life. Know that God has all the good you could ever want. Know that God’s good is yours now to live out fully, to be blessed by and to be rewarded with.
God has everything you’re looking for. Keep God as your true north and live well.
Oh dear Evan, that is unspeakable good, loving and healing, turning our consciousness fully and totally to God as our divine source of being, wanting and love! So needed as always!
So very comforting what you wrote: “God has everything we are looking for. Let`s keep God as our true north and live well”
Thank you awfully for your so blessing blog. And I am ever so very grateful to my dear friend who once called my attention to your wonderful SpiritView.!
Thank you Evan for posting this. I have been feeling like this for awhile and asking God what I need to know, searching and reading scripture. Knowing that I’m God’s daughter.
Love reading your posts.
Thank you Evan. Just what I needed for today.
Another great one Evan. Each of your posts is a huge blessing of instruction. Thank you for your work and for sharing it.
I am so grateful Evan for this, I needed it so much. Thanks too for all your blogs and also to all fans of SpiritView for your helpful comments.
Our spiritual compass….just love that phrase….it is what leads us to God who is the source of all the good in our life.The beauty of Christian Science is that it uplifts thought first to be aligned to God and His reality, and then the body, relationships, whatever is out of whack, is restored and strengthened. I’m so thankful for this blog. It is ever fresh and ever thought provoking. Thank you, dear friend Evan.
Thanks for this message today!
It’s all about God.
My teacher refers to finding a spiritual “touchstone” for the day – a thought, quote, song, feeling, idea, whatever – that brings that feeling of connectedness right back. It’s all about connecting with God!
Thank you from the heart, Evan, This is wonderfully inspiring and exactly what I need for today and every day. Your words and presentation are just perfect.
Yes, True North.
One prob I have (sometimes…ok…often!) is the temptation to believe I am (we are) lost in the belief and dream of material living…a veritable wilderness, with few clear paths out!
This is clearly not the fact, as we know. Christian Science presents the divine Facts, and
the sooner “human thought” accepts them the better! We never WERE in such a dream place.
I see the essential thing is to NOT identify ourselves as mortal, or human, but as divine, spiritual ideas of God.
Then we’re really AT our True North!!!
I was just thinking about how I accept too much I was born into this material mess and my job is to find my way out of it. But it never was like this. Time to drop this idea and realize I am facing North. I am doing a few things with astronomy at my job. I will remember to face due North.
Yes, thank you, Evan. Our most important goal should be to learn about God for then we will know what is true about our world. As a friend reminded me, we coexist with God—we’ve always been with Him/Her, our Father-Mother. We are always in the kingdom of heaven when we focus on God and His goodness, and we will see it in our lives. As Mrs. Eddy tells us “Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts.” ( S&H 261) Focusing on God does this!
I meant to say that focusing on God is finding our true north!
Hi SpiritViewFan,
I know what you mean. I find this article very helpful because it has one very simple premise. Maybe it will help you too with your struggle. I think this article will show you how very close to the answer you already are. It’s called Withdraw Your Consent by Nathan Talbot. Maybe you’ve already read it? Anyway I hope it helps.
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/2fcie7b32kg?s=e
Dear Karen,
The helpful article Withdraw Your Consent you shared unwrapped a hidden lie about me and my family. Thank you for recommending that we all read it. Finding our True North, the topic Evan shared with us today, was the real dawning of this tussle, between living and knowing the Truth, but only half believing in the what is always True. Your pointing the way towards what is eternally true makes the most sense.
God opens the way for us, we follow His lead.
Thank you.
I’m so happy you found it helpful chilesands!
Hi Karen,
I also found it very helpful and, yes, I think Americans could also say “insightful”.
Here in Germany it is abt. 7 pm, and I just finished reading that really wonderful inspiring article “Withdraw your consent” by Nathan A. Talbot.
Dear Karen, thank you very much indeed for the link which I luckyly could open without problem so that I could read it although I did not subscribe to the Journal. 🙂
Once again I come to this post late in the evening. I have had a busy day and am rather tired and have been hunting everywhere for an important item I seem to have mislaid. But – as always – SpiritView refreshes and revives me, and the best thing about reading it late in the day is getting to read all the appreciative and helpful responses from the SpiritViewers.
Bless you Evan, and all your followers for their sharing.