I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me.
~ Isaiah 45:5
To worship one God is incredibly liberating.
The one God of the Bible is a God of Love, Truth, Life, and Spirit. It’s a good God that loves us, watches out for us, and gives us everything we need to prosper in His way.
But there are times when we may be tempted to worship other gods. If any type of anger, resentment, fear, disease, material obsession, self, greed, and their kin, sneak into thought, we’ve lost sight of the one God of Love. We are worshipping other gods.
Be alert! Stand guard! Refuse to bow down to the gods of mortal mind which only lead to suffering.
Honor the one God. Adore the one God. Stick with the one God and live a spiritually inspired life of peace and joy. Health abounds there!
The one God, a God of Love and Life, is worthy of your full attention.
When I first came into C.S. I was astonished to learn what it means to have
other gods, Things which I thought were a part of life and had to be dealt with
by what the material world had decided was the way to do it – or that we just
had to put up with it and make the best of whatever was troublesome, was needing
a complete change of thought. I had never thought of them as gods, but if we
accept them as real, that is what they become to us as long as we believe it.
I had been attending regularly a C of E church, which was just over the road from
where I lived as a child, and had been confirmed. But nothing was ever said about
turning to God for all our needs.,and it never made me feel that God was Love
and an ever present help in trouble.
So I began to learn in C.S. that God was the ONLY power, and that anything unlike Him had no power.at all. What a revelation! According to the teachings of C.S., I discovered that I didn’t need to fear
anything that claimed it could harm me in any way. I saw that there was nothing to fer – no fear in fact,;
no sickness that had power to harm me, no food that had power for good or bad etc. etc. I begab
to learn how to overcome material claims to my well-being, and, of course, that is an on-going activity.
I am glad to be reminded of this today, as material claims do creep in if we are not watchful, and
this truth that there is only one God, and He does not give His power to anyone or anything else.. This
understanding is a wonderful help in our prayers not only for ourselves, but for the whole world.
I’m going to keep this truth uppermost in my consciousness all the time. Thank you Evan.
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Thank you Maggie for your post. I found it very helpful. A good elaboration on todays SV subject. As always many thanks to Evan for all he posts.
Thank you, Evan and Maggie for this. I sometimes struggle with the fact that I didn’t grow up in Science, therefore it is seems hard for me to understand, or even was forbidden by my previous faith. But I have hope that there is a way; it is helpful to know that anything other than God is not the Truth, that is really an idol. Imagine fear and idol— but it is because I let it take me from God, who loves and saves.
Thank you, Maggie, for such an inspiring explanation and special thanks to you, Evan. What a wonderful reminder of the need to “Stand Porter at the door of thought…” We achieve our spiritual dominion in Christian Science by not wavering and not allowing mortal mind to creep in with its subtle and aggressive suggestions that would tempt us to challenge the allness of God and rely on such things as personal sense. While we’re all working through our individual demonstrations and may diverge at times, there’s no short cut to the first commandment and following God completely, and that’s what provides us with dominion over all of mortal mind’s claims.
Well said all ! Sincere thanks.