Would you like to see more good things and less bad things happening in your life? Perhaps one way to realize more of the good is to challenge any notion of chance. To see clearly that the goodness of God coming your way is not subject to lack or loss—ever.
In the realm of human belief, accidents, risk, and chance seem to have the upper hand at times. Events go awry, well laid out plans fall apart, an errant driver hits our car, and the list of unfortunate outcomes goes on. But we do not have to resign ourselves to lack and loss. We can challenge the notion of chance and demonstrate God’s consistent goodness.
Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God’s unerring direction and thus bring out harmony” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 424). Accidents are not a part of living our spiritual life with God. They are errant beliefs of mortal mind that disappear under the government of divine Mind. God’s plan for our life is predictable good.
To stay safe, be quick to reject any notion of chance in your life and mightily side with the certain goodness of God.
There isn’t anything risky about life with God. Real supply, health, love, wisdom, joy, are not at the mercy of chance. They are a permanent part of who we are as children of God. They are never lost and they can’t be taken from us—ever.
Life is not an event of chance. It’s the outcome of predictable good!
Thank you so much for this Evan!
Grateful for this Evan! Thank you!
Love the picture, not chance but change, focusing on God, Mind, good, being in control!
Dear Evan,
Thank you so much, as always, for another beautifully inspired and highly instructive SpiritView so needed in light of mortal mind’s ubiquitous claims of life in matter. Our joy and dominion come by focusing on the ever presence of divine Principle, which fills all space.
Thank you so much for this wonderful lesson on change. Change can be very scary
at times and we resist sometimes, understandably .. I am reminded of when my car
was totaled and when going through the experience of getting a newer/different one
.. there seemed obstacles, but step by step, they dissolved into a much better car
that met my needs so much better than before.. It is sort of true that “God works in
mysterious ways” … always planning Good for us in much better ways than we can
even imagine.
Looking back at how everything fell into place, I Know it was God’s hand at work,
guiding – like from sense to Soul … with a feeling of lack, into an unfoldment of
Harmony. What seemed to be such a challenge, turned out to be a blessing in
disguise. God knows what we need, even before we ask. Like in Hymn #9, “God
is Love … And so our hearts find peace”.
That is so good and helpful dear Evan! For days a line from Hymn 40 in our hymnal kept coming to me “Earth has no sorrow, but Love can remove.” I usually think of verses coming as a sign of something I need to know and pray with or be inspired about. As this line kept coming, playing over and over in my head, I started to worry! Was it preparing me for something bad that was going to happen, something that was going to cause me sorrow? I even thought of calling a practitioner for support as it was so insistent. I went back to the hymn to find positive messages: “HERE health and peace is found, Life, Truth and Love”… “HERE speaks the Comforter”, …”HERE see the Bread of Life”… “Come to the feast of Love”! That turned it around – instead of a negative foreboding of something bad or sad coming – I needed to see all of God’s presence and presents HERE NOW! We are loved and blessed! Expect good!
Thanks for your comments Sharon. It’s interesting how error tries to take something good, like a verse from a hymn (a song whose purpose is to praise God and give us spiritual confidence) and use it in the opposite direction to cause worry. I’ve seen error try to be tricky with me this way many times. Great to hear that you persisted and found the truer meaning of the hymn, dissolving the evil thought into its native nothingness.
Evan thanks for the topic of Chance. This belief can cause us to feel unsafe, unstable. One dictionary definition of Chance is – “the unpredictable element in existence.” In CS we learn that there is nothing unpredictable about God, good, the only power. As Evan advises we should, “…mightily side with the certain goodness of God.” Yesss
Thanks so much dear Rose. It’s very kind of you to reply to my comment. I agree -our hymns are here to comfort us, heal us and praise God. I’m grateful for the turn around in my thinking, for your kindness and for Evan’s ongoing love and support of us!
“Divine Love lifts all burdens” by Janet Clements, from The Christian Science Journal, February 2024:
https://journal.christianscience.com/issues/2024/2/142-02/divine-love-lifts-all-burdens
*If this article doesn’t open completely, you can find it under Healings when you Google:
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Evan, I really love your closing statements, “Life is not an event of chance. It’s the outcome of predictable good.”
What a presence God is in our lives. Thank you for this loving reminder that we only have God’s goodness to guide us through every step we take.
Thank you so much, Evan!
Thank you, Evan! This is such a magnificent way to start the morning!!!
My cousin was telling me recently that her husband had thought he had been
the winner of a well known sweepstakes he had entered. She was skeptical
and for good reason, as it turned out to be a scam, although, like mortal mind
can be very deceptive and seeming real. He had gotten into believing it quite
heavily and it took a bit of finally realizing it wasn’t true, even though they
apparently went to the extent, as duplicating as with winners on tv. Seniors are
sometimes drawn into these scams, as they can Seem legit and like with mortal
mind, we must always be on guard to what is true and what is a false pretense
of the truth. mortal mind tries to prey on the vulnerable. Games of chance,
raffles, gambling – all proclaim these notions of chance as being something to
make one a winner, rich, but are all means of material mind to deceive into
believing in matter as being something desirable.
MARAVILHOSO!!
Thank you very much, dear Evan, for today’s SpiritView. I love Mrs. Eddy’s passage in SH on p. 424!
To reject the possibility of chance and to side totally with the certain goodness of God is wonderful and so comforting. With God there is no chance but only His unerring and safe direction/guidance which surely brings out the worldwide needed harmony!
If I ponder the word “accident”, it comes to mind that it must not only be bodily. It could be a mistake one seemingly made in his life. So, also such socalled accidents are unknown to our God, Spirit as He made His loved child perfect to God’s image and likeness, to the likeness of Love!!
I’m very grateful for this SV, Evan, as it is very comforting and helpful; and it’s also healing if one ponders it more thoroughly. I’m praying to get better understanding of the Truth. 🙂
I’m in Court today with clients fleeing Central America. I have shared these comforting thoughts with our supporters. So grateful to have this foremost in thought at this moment.
“…unite with the One Mind…” As we learn in this Science of divine Mind, we are never out-of-our-Mind, and therefore our “uniting” is actually a-becoming-more-aware-of-our-present-unity with-Mind, our true and only Mind, God. I find it very comforting to realize this. Any claim whatsoever that we are somehow living in a realm apart from infinite (INFINITE, LIMITLESS) divine Mind, is a very evil and entirely false claim, a lie!. How can there be more than…infinity? all? Such a profound truth to ponder and be comforted by, huh!
With Love,
Sue