The infinite has no beginning.
~ Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 502
To experience the best life possible, be sure to reason out from the infinite when you draw conclusions about your prospects for health, even supply and love.
As spiritual beings, we reflect the infinite possibilities of God. We have unlimited life, health, joy, abundance, and love to experience daily.
However, if we reason out from the finite, rather than the infinite, we might feel limited in what we can do. If we think we are governed by a physical body, subject to material laws, and lacking something material to feel good, we are wallowing around in the realm of the finite where prospects for success may appear dim, even nonexistent.
Be wise! Remember who you are. You are not a finite mortal limited by matter. You are an immortal blessed with infinite goodness coming from God. And this reality includes limitless health, abundance and love.
“The infinite has no beginning,” meaning, no beginning in matter. Matter is not where you find the infinite. The infinite is Spirit. The infinite just is all the time—limitless, boundless, eternal harmony and peace.
Begin with the infinite, and whatever problem seemed to begin in matter, will disappear, for the finite yields to the infinite without fail.
How beautifully this is stated by Mary Baker Eddy as she was inspired by Mind, a name for God. I especially like the end of the paragraph “…the finite yields to the infinite without fail.” What a joy it is when one experiences healing of pain in the body proving the finite yields!
Me too Katie! Thank you Evan for this inspiring promise. Such a useful and powerful promise to apply to challenges today.
I love “Remember who you are”! Will be a reMinder today!!!
Yes Jan I also appreciated, “Remember who you are.” It made me think of Hymn 475 which begins, “Forget not who you are O child of God.” If we forget not who we are as God’s child we can remember that we are infinite, reflecting only His infinite good.
Here is the whole hymn:
Forget not who you are, O child of God,
for God demands of you reflection pure
Your heritage goodly, and your home
in Spirit’s warm embrace is safe, secure.
You are the child of Spirit, sinless, pure.
Yours is a perfect beauty, born of soul,
complete with health, vitality and grace.
For is not God, your Father, perfect, whole?
Your understanding, too, comes straight from God,
for in that Mind, magnificent and clear
you are conceived by Love, a perect child
unhampered by the flesh, or doubt, or fear.
So now look up to God’s pure holy light
and greet with fearless joy each coming day,
for you are a King’s own child, and God is yours,
and you are God’s alway.
This made me smile because it made me remember that when I was a child, as my mom sent us out the door, off to school for the day, she would often say “Remember who you are!”
This made me smile because it made me remember that when I was a child, as my mom sent us out the door, off to school for the day, she would often say “Don’t forget who you are!”
Thank you.
I’m feeling INFINITE today…
Incorruptible | Newness | Freedom | Inexhaustible | Natural | Industrious | Tenderness | Exuberance
Hi Mark/IL, I enjoy your acrostics and today especially so….the words just resonated with me. I’ve been feeling so-called effects of dis-ease the last few days, With working out the metaphysical reality of my being these words describe who I truly am! Thanks you!
Evan, as always, enjoy your Spiritview and all the commenters help to expand on the themes. Much gratitude.
Wow…love all these attributes and ideas!
So beautiful, Evan, and so inspiring and yet very simple. Thank you.
Love the rainbow ribbon and message of infinity today! Thank you and to
all with comments that are always so encouraging and motivating. I was
thinking about how being like a little child, we are not in any way limited
in our thinking. Young children depend on others, like our Father/Mother/God
and know nothing about birth, death, lack. They just Trust they will be cared for
by an inexhaustible source of Good. In pondering, I think this is what Jesus had
meant when he said we need to become like little children… so pure and innocent
and loving and trusting – infinite Goodness!
Yes, the childlike receptivity is what is needed for healing! Principle is guiding us as we listen for His voice. There is no lack in God’s infinite manifestation. Love the message today Evan.
Love it!❣️
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1hty5uu1stg?s=copylink
An excellent article Christine, thank you for sharing it!
Today when reading the lesson the thought occurred to me that I can “Destroy some error today!” So I took some time to pray and reasoned with what I had learned when reading the lesson to destroy the belief that there are separate minds that can be at war. That error is destroyed by understanding there is only one Mind, and it’s *infinite* manifestation. There can not be anything other than the manifestation of the one Mind if that manifestation is *infinite*. And if God is good, the manifestation of God can only be good, loving, working together for a good purpose, etc.
And if the *infinite* has no beginning, it certainly can’t have an ending. That truth destroys the error that our lives are finite. What are you going to be doing 500 years from now? Or 100 years from now? Or 50 years from now? You can start preparing today for what you will be doing 50 years from now by perhaps learning a new skill, or making a new friend that you can work together with in preparing for what you will be doing. It’s fun to consider life as *infinite,” isn’t it? 🙂
Thank you Evan and all.
RobertH, enjoyed reading your comments. “Destroy some error today!” brought to thought:
“Replacing beliefs with truths” by Geoffrey J. Barratt. From the October 15, 1979 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1lsqqlyvgs8?s=copylink
Thank you J. Always love the articles you (and everyone…Thank You too Christine) share!
I was worried after I made my comment that it left the impression that “error” is something real that needs to be destroyed, versus just a belief in the absence of something real. For example, darkness is just the absence of light, cold the absence of heat, sickness the absence of health, war the absence of peace. When I realize there can never be an absence of health, peace, etc., God’s *infinite* manifestation is revealed!
This is great to remember!
Thank you!
Evan, love what you said that we should not be, “wallowing around in the realm of the finite where prospects for success may appear dim, even nonexistent.” Wallowing, that’s what it feels like when we let ourselves be pulled down into a spiral of mortal, material thinking.
I also want to thank everyone who responded over the weekend to my question from Friday about ‘spiritual bypass.’ Very helpful and much appreciated. Still pondering this. Love to all of you for loving, thoughtful, wise comments and shares.
Thank you Evan and everyone for your inputs and
articles. And yesterday’s article by CORINNE B. TEETER was very instructive and helpful, Thank you J. for that. I have just read it.
When I saw the coloured bow at the top here, I
thought about “the bow of promise on the cloud”
that Mrs. Eddy coined in one of her hymns
And then someone asked me today if I knew what was the symbol for infinity. I didn’t know and she explained. And I have just Googled it. There was
a question followed by the answer:-
Why is the sideways 8 the symbol for infinity?
“The sideways eight associated with infinity was created in the world of mathematics in 1655 by the mathematician John Wallis, who decided to use a sideways eight to represent infinity. The buzz is he got the idea from the Roman numeral for 1.000, CIƆ, which looks very similar to the infinity symbol.18”
I think the colourful bow basically takes on this shape, so I am getting the message of the promise that Mrs. Eddy makes at the beginning of Science & Health:-
“To those leaning on th sustaining infinite, today
is big with blessings” This is my “bow of promise
on the cloud”, and God keeps his promises, So
I am leaning on the sustaining infinite and letting
God take care of me and everyone.