If you’ve ever felt at the mercy of others, you can change that. Understand yourself to be solely at the mercy of God.
God is your Life. God is your source of supply. God is your health, strength, consciousness, ability, past, present and future. God is your everything and anything that matters in the long run.
We may feel intimidated or threatened by others when we believe something important in our life is at their mercy. However, when we understand that everything in our life that is important is spiritual, safe, and sound in Spirit, we lose fear of what others threaten and don’t allow them to control our thinking and decision-making.
Jesus left a stunning example of this truth when he was being interrogated by Pilate before the crucifixion. Pilate was frustrated with Jesus, and lobbed this threat at him, “Don’t you realize that I have the power to release you or crucify you?” Jesus replied, “You would have no power over me at all unless it were given to you from above” (John 19:10-11, NLT). Jesus knew that everything in his life that was important was purely spiritual and out of Pilate’s reach. He was crucified, but his understanding of spiritual truth empowered him to walk away from the crucifixion unharmed, and in a stronger position than before.
We can learn from Jesus’ example.
Other people may think they have power over us, but they do not. As children of God, we are free spiritual thinkers. We are always mentally free to side with Truth, to see our substance as spiritual and out of the reach of others.
What we have from God is spiritual, eternal, and never subject to material loss. It’s all that really matters. No one can threaten it. God’s mercy maintains it forever.
Live in God’s mercy, and have no fear of others. It’s a happy way to live.
Thank you Evan. Love your comment that we are free spiritual thinkers. A quote I wrote down: “That which appears to be material is only a mental concept, a thought. Thought can be replaced, changed, or corrected. For whoever heard of an unchangeable thought!”
Thank you very much dear Evan, big Hugs!
I love these spiritual views of today’s SV! They are very comforting, utmost helpful and meet my needs for free thinking God’s thoughts and rejecting wrong mortal opinions. Wonderful, to side with God, Truth and know what we have from God is spiritual, eternal and never subject to material loss and that is knowing the truth that God is my life and therefore the source of my supply health and strength!
Jesus wonderful resurrection is a helpful comparison in today’s utmost helpful SpiritView! Thanks again Evan!♡
By the way, this SV was not in my email inbox and I suppose neither in the other commenter’. I am grateful I got it by clicking on “newer” in yesterday’s SV!
A divine foto up here !♡
Yes, I googled SpiritView
Sometimes the other person is ourself
taking on a burdened material view,
and coming from within we give it
more staying power
Our God given freedom is forever as Evan
mentioned. Jesus didn’t have “another”
in thought to distract.
He did not let crucifixion define
him, be in thought, or experience.
He didn’t have crucified thinking
we can’t either.
‘God’s Ever-presence Is Our True Shelter’:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/17q7kwru21m?s=e
Thank you Evan for this essential point of our invulnerability when siding with God, good, as our All.
& Loved the amazing photo art for today’s SpiritView -it says it all !
‘In heavenly Love abiding, / No change my heart shall fear;
And safe is such confiding, / For nothing changes here.
The storm may roar without me, / My heart may low be laid;
But God is round about me, / And can I be dismayed?
Wherever He may guide me, / No want shall turn me back;
My Shepherd is beside me, / And nothing can I lack.
His wisdom ever waketh, / His sight is never dim;
He knows the way He taketh, / And I will walk with Him.
Green pastures are before me, / Which yet I have not seen;
Bright skies will soon be o’er me, / Where darkest clouds have been.
My hope I cannot measure, / My path in life is free;
My Father has my treasure, / And He will walk with me.’ [Hymn 148]
Thank you very much Angie for the article. Will read it later as it is night here. And I love that comforting song very much! Thank you for sharing it here!
Sometimes it seems I’m at the mercy of wrong thinking/error, those thoughts say that everything is wrong, or there is a feeling of gloom and doom that comes and goes. Those thoughts are not mine. I turn to God to be lifted out of that false mental atmosphere and always the true state of Joy returns, but then a dark feeling will return again bringing a nasty lie that says my Joy is temporary and fragile and I will be struggling again. But how can my Joy and Peace be temporary if they are always existing in Divine Mind and this Mind is my only mind? I am truly not at the mercy of error, but at the continuous mercy (kindness, compassion, grace, benevolence) of God, good.
Right at this moment Soul is the substance of our being, the healing presence embracing us, the
source of every true thought and act.
“Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.”