What are you believing today?
Do you believe God is keeping you healthy and strong? Do you believe solutions will appear to your problems? Do you believe you can love your family members who are hard to get along with? Do you believe the day is going to be filled with positive developments?
We are always believing in something.
Since we tend to head in the direction our beliefs carry us, be sure to believe in what brings good results your way.
Believe in God’s ability to cause good things to happen. Believe in God’s ability to keep you well and strong. Believe in Love’s power to harmonize relationships. Believe in the positivity of Life lived with God. Believe in the goodness of God that is always present to sustain and support you!
As the Bible reminds us, “Choose this day whom you will serve” (Josh. 24:15, RSV).
Serve an inspired God, not a demoralized mortal mind. Live the good Life—God’s Life of boundless joy and freedom.
Choose to believe in what helps.
Thank you so much Evan for this inspiration. It made me think of this from Science and Health page 243:27 “Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.”
There is one Truth and that is the God’s goodness is eternal, infinite and unopposed by any other power. MBE established that as the basis for which we can discover our true selves as God’s expression and not just our own idea.
Thanks Josef, I love remembering that God is unopposed by any other so-called power. He is the only Power, and all good.
Thank you Evan for today’s inspiration! A very helpful reminder to “choose, whom you will serve.” Choose Spirit/not matter!
I also wanted to thank RobertH for his reference to the Sentinel watch with Honor Hill. It was very good! One I had not heard. So thank you!
In the glossary of Science & Health Mrs. Eddy
gives us the definition of “believing” as:
“firmness and constancy; not a faltering nor a blind faith,
but the perception of spiritual Truth “
She gives at the end two more definitions – “mortal thoughts, illusion. :
It is very helpful, I find. to have these definitions, so that we can be alert o
recognising and believing only the first part of this definition; and to be watchful that
we do not accept mortal thoughts, or illusions. i.e. be alert to serve God only,
and don’t be fooled by mortal thoughts which try to creep in, which only lead to illusions,
and deny God’s allness and goodness. Accept only the good and good things will happen, as Evan says.
This ireminder s just what i needed today. Thank you evan and all of you who have added additional insights to this truth.
Mary
This is a perfect topic for me today. I need to be vigilant about what I’m accepting as truth and believing. Even the tiniest thought needs watchfulness. Thank you Evan.
Thank you, Evan and all who contribute. God is Love! I am so thankful for Christian Science!
“Serve an inspired God, not a demoralized mortal mind.” That is quite a statement.
I don’t think I would ever consciously choose to serve demoralized mortal mind, but I guess that is what we’re doing when we seemingly get sucked down the rabbit hole of repetitive material suggestions and ruminating on things/thoughts/beliefs that are not from God, which He knows nothing about.
Like Evan said, we tend to head in the direction that our thoughts and beliefs carry us. I need to be sure I’m serving/believing/focusing on the one true God of Love and keep receiving all the good and joy that comes with that.
Yesterday we had the image at top of SV message of hands breaking the iron chains of seeming enslavement to material thinking. I see in this week’s lesson, Love, in the responsive reading it says “He bringeth out those which are bound with chains.”
Thank you Rose and Evan and all, for these very helpful thoughts.
One of the definitions that is given of believe in the dictionary is,
“to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of
something, although without absolute proof that one is right in
doing so” . This is what we have, isn’t it? – when we have
confidence in the Truth, with capital letter T – also a synonym of
God. We may not “see” this Truth, but like the wind, we know that
it is there, like when a wind chime is chiming. God’s existence and
reliability is provable however when we try to have our foremost
thought on God’s Love and guidance and care for us.
Thank you, Evan and all. It’s finally dawned on me, after much prayer, that it is my thought that God will heal, not my body, which is always perfect and harmonious.