Do you see yourself as a blessed immortal or as a lacking mortal?
If you identify with mortality and lack, it’s time to change your point of view! Mortality is not your reality. Immortality is your reality.
You were made in the image of God and divinely designed to experience the joy, freedom, abundance, and health of living your eternal spiritual life with God. Life with God is filled with boundless good. There is no lack there.
But to experience the best life has to offer, it’s critical to think out from a correct basis. Immortality is reality. Mortality is unreality.
Be sure to reason out from the facts, that you are an immortal being living your eternal spiritual life with God that is blessed with boundless good. As you are clear on your reality with God, the picture of a lacking mortal disappears, and your individuality made in the likeness of God appears.
Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Mortals will disappear, and immortals, or the children of God, will appear as the only and eternal verities of man….Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 476).
Don’t waste time trying to live in the illusion-land of mortality. It’s not a fun place to be. It’s rife with lack. Wake up to reality. Live in immortality! That’s where life is a joy to live, and God’s blessings abound.
Thank you Evan !!! I love this Truth !! We are not a mortal, not subject to sin , disease, or death !! Not limited by matter in any way !!
Thank you for today’s much needed prompt Evan!
Contemporary spiritual thinker, Mary Davis, whom I find inspiring says,
“. . . many of us have become expert worriers, a sport we need to retire from, as our worry magnifies the negative scene that we are worrying about!”
Mortality is like looking at life through a telescope, the only view is a magnified potentially erroneous situation. Looking more closely never helps. In fact, in her poem, Mother’s Evening Prayer, Mrs Eddy wrote, “Only with mine eye, can I behold the snare the pit the fall.”
Much better to put down the spy glass and behold the Spirit View!
Thank you for this thought. Reminded me of this poem by Doris Peel
https://gentleartofblessing.org/a-poem-on-identity/
Beautiful poem, Manuela = thank you for sharing
“Simplicity Can Be Powerful” from the June 10, 1996 issue of The Christian Science Monitor:
https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/0610/061096.home.relarticle.1.html
(*This article opens on my iPhone, but I can’t get the full article to open on my laptop. Not sure why that is, so this may/may not open for you. Maybe someone could kindly attach a shareable copy.)
It opens on my laptop, J. Good article.
Thank you, Evan, and all. This is an article written by R. Louise Emery (for children) in the August 8, 1970 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel entitled: “A Whale in the Pail.” It is a simple article about waking up!
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1ta5w4mwiti?s=copylink
Love this article, thanks for sharing it Cheryl.
Thank you Evan. I am glad to be reminded that my true identity is a blessed immortal, not lacking any good thing, as God reflects me (and all) every moment.
Question: In the S&H quote above where Mrs. Eddy says, “Learn this O mortal….”, it could seem like she is describing us as actually being mortals who needs to seek or learn something to become immortals. Sounds like she is calling us mortals. But I think maybe she means that we often seem to be operating from and living on the level of mortal beliefs and we need to wake up from that to see the present spiritual reality. Any thoughts?
Rose, I think MBE is addressing those of us who believe we are mortals , and have not yet
begun to earnestly seek the true status of man. I can’t think of any other way she could
have put it to make her point. As Mrs. Eddy herself has said, it is difficult to explain
spiritua truths to anyone who has not yet gleaned a little of their spiritual identity.
But, of course, Christ Jesus demonstrated for us that we are immortals in his healing
ministry. He saw everyone as they truly were, as God’s own perfect spiritual expression,
and he revealed it to us. He saw man as a blessed immortal, lacking nothing,