Do you ever let your mind get plugged up with worries, fears, anxieties or doubts? If so, it’s time to unplug consciousness with spiritual truth and free up your ability to reason with clarity.
If the drain in your sink gets stopped up with food chunks, water won’t flow through. If your computer gets infiltrated with malware, the hard drive slows down and might even quit.
The same bad effect happens with thinking. If it gets filled up material concerns, worldly worries and mortal planning, it starts to slow, whimper, even quit.
Jesus instructed, “Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation” (Mark 14:38, NLT). He didn’t mean “Watch for all the things to worry about and stay fearful.” He meant, “Watch for the goodness of God all around and rejoice in it.”
A while back, I was feeling bogged down. I examined my thought and found worries that I had allowed to take up mental residence. So, one by one, I resolved them.
I quit trying to do God’s job, strengthened my trust in the one Mind’s wisdom to work its way in my life, and spent my effort knowing all was well under God’s intelligent design.
It worked!
My thought unplugged. The burden lifted. Joy and buoyancy took over. I was soaring through the heights of divine Mind, and the effect was heavenly.
So, don’t limp through your day with a plugged up mind. Unplug it with spiritual truth and think free!
What a relief to read this Evan! I am feeling SO snowed under with church related jobs while trying to pack and move house…but I felt instantly calmer when I read this…esp like “quit trying to do God’s job”
Thankyou again 🙂
As I read this blog, it just came to me in a flash that what Evan is doing for us in all his blogs is giving us free class instruction.
Wonderful insight! Thanks for sharing!
WONDERFUL EVAN…THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR MESSAGES OF GOOD..
Wow! This is terrific, Evan, and very helpful right now. I especially liked “knowing all was well
under God’s intelligent design.”
Thanks you so much for all your good work.
lol! I agree that Evan’s blog is wonderful, stupendous, excellent, tremendous, with all the et ceteras you can add. But I have to disagree with Tobias, because I don’t think it even touches the surface of what you would learn by taking class instruction from Evan (but I know what you meant Tobias and I certainly agree with your sentiment!). So for all of those people out there desiring to take class, please allow yourself that wonderful experience! If not with Evan, with someone.
In thinking of ways to describe Evan’s blog I recently came up with another one….STICKY. Yes, I now think of this blog as STICKY. When I read this blog, the ideas expressed *stick* with me and provoke me to think deeply about the topics Evan so kindly blogs about (even sometimes when I don’t want to!). I also feel like I have an “Evan angel” on my shoulder sometimes (as portrayed in movies and TV shows where someone has an angel whispering to them on one shoulder and a devil whispering to them on another shoulder). Many times since starting to follow this blog I have been tempted to get impatient with someone or react negatively in some situation and I think WWED (what would Evan do). Then I think back and recall some blog where he described a similar situation and described his thought process and I am able to calmly deal with the situation in ways similar to what he described in his blog. And finally, I used to think David (from the Bible…the guy that confronted Goliath) was the most courageous person in history, but the way Evan courageously blogs about subjects most people would be too fearful to tackle (i.e. sex outside marriage, when he thought he lost his wife, etc.) puts him right up there with David in the courage category IMO.
But again, even as great as this blog is, don’t let it supplant your desire to take class instruction. I promise you will learn things in class that can’t be covered in a blog format.
Couldn’t express my sentiments better than Brian did. Thank you Evan for your methods of speeding up our spiritual growth. So grateful.
Evan, love this blog. Especially the comment about taking up concerns and resolving them one by one. No head in the sand for practicing Christian Scientists! But one by one scientifically praying through each issue to resolve it. Thank you as always for your keen insight and practicality, Evan. Deeply appreciative!
Great words of wisdom. Loved the analogy of the plugged up sink.
Evan’s Class was wonderful and what he continues to give us is the love he expresses to help us retain our spiritual growth. I think Tobias is fishing.
One more thought about class instruction: there truly is no impediment that God cannot remove so as to provide the opportunity for class instruction. I look forward to hearing that Tobias has found his opportunity. In the meantime, I love reading his comments online.
This blog appeared the day I was asked for help by someone who worries – a lot. So I printed it and gave it to her. I’ve given her other things to read, but it is this blog that she has asked me to read to her again and again. I know that she asks for it because it has had a good effect on her thinking as we take one step at a time to resolve the worrisome things by replacing them with appreciation of God’s goodness.
Thank you so very much for embracing the technology that allows you to share these thoughts that come to you and for giving us the opportunity to reply,
Hey, that’s cool! Thanks for sharing how it helped another. I appreciate that.