Cleaning up is a regular part of life.
We clean our bodies, our clothes, where we live, our car, our computing devices to keep them in good condition.
Regular cleaning is necessary to keep the filth and grime of mortality from building up and holding us back.
As part of your regular cleaning routine, don’t forget to clean up your thinking! That’s the most important cleaning of all to keep everything else in your life running smoothly.
Be sure to cast out the filth of anger, resentment, ill-will, selfishness, laziness, apathy, and their kin. Be quick to trash any suggestions of disease. Allow no space for fear to accumulate.
The Bible says, “Wash yourselves and be clean!” (Isa. 1:16, NLT).
Maintain a clean mental house. Seek spiritual mindedness and maintain it. You’ll live happier and healthier.
Thanks Evan for this purifying idea! Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Thank you Evan
Perfect! Thank you!!!!
A wonderful moment by moment reminder, Evan. Thank you ever so much.
Thank you!
I’m going to clean up and purify my thoughts (my mental home)
Let’s “shower the people we love with love” 🙂
James Taylor
The Bible Lesson this week is an excellent lesson for us to learn from.
One thing that particularly stands out for me is the prayerful request to God in Psalms: :“Cleanse thou me from secret faults”.
Before I knew anything about Christian Science I was not aware of all that really constitutes sin, and C.S. was an eye-opener to me. It showed me that anything that denies the allness of God our all-loving Father-Mother, who is pure and perfect, is not a reality.
Therefore if I was believing what the material senses were telling me, and repeating them, or even thinking them – i.e. judging or criticising others, or believing
in discords of any kind – that was admitting that there was another god or power opposed to the one Almighty God and Father of us all., therefore was breaking the 1st commandment.
In C.S. we are urged to keep examining our thoughts to see if there is anything unlike God’s goodness trying to creep in, and immediately reject it – and replace that thought with the spiritual fact about it. This I see as our daily mental cleansing, and it is really necessary for us if we are to keep happy and healthy, as Evan
informs us as can be.
It should be a joyful task, because it is leading us out
of the awful predictions and expectation of a material existence, so that we can be fit to find ourselves continually in the Kingdom of heavenly harmony, where we will be no longer sick, or fearful, or subject to any sinful destructive suggestions.
Thanks Maggie! That was excellent thinking! And of course thanks Evan!
Thank you, Evan.
to dovetail with this topic, one should listen to this weeks Wednesday testimony meeting from TMC under christianscience.com church services. The emphasis is on those doing good works are often mocked. We can’t be hesitant to stand up for truth and love and doing good deeds for our neighbors.
When I CLEAN, I express …
Charity | Liberty | Empathy | Adherence | Newness
All of these thoughts are so helpful. The sharing here helps to clear away the
cobwebs of mortal thinking and the sharing of tasks, like in the photo above,
also helps to ease the load that we sometimes feel burdened by. Seeing within
the word – c l e a n, I see the word lean. We can Lean on the Truth that supports
our spiritual way of thinking, helping to rid the beliefs of mortal ways, cleansing
our mental house with purity and divine purpose.
Needed this this morning. Thank you
Thank you Evan, this is so helpful and necessary!
Good timing on the topic of Clean Up. I am beginning a decluttering process, part of preparing for a visit from our daughter in a couple of weeks. I have had struggles over the years with holding on to too many THINGS, seeming emotional attachments. It’s important for me to let go and let God and trust that he is guiding this process, and that even if I get rid of many things, I’ll always have what I need in God and won’t be in lack or scarcity but can express that balance of no excess and no deficiency. Just the right amount of everything. Like it says in Misc Writings (p. 307) If we wait on (trust) God, we will have all we need, every moment.
It’s really about cleaning my mental home, divine consciousness, which is actually always clean and fresh and organized and beautiful – the opposite of what material sense is seeming to reflect in my surroundings. I hope I can uncover the true orderliness and harmony, the God atmosphere, unfolding before us and the false appearance dropping away.
I love the unfoldment you shared Rose, about “holding on to too many THINGS, . . . uncovering emotional attachments.” Confronting reality while being guided in your process can release and UN attach ourselves with what we need most, LOVE, Love, love, for God, as he guides us, swiftly but gently to what YOU need. Just going grocery shopping while uncovering bargains can tempt us to select more than we really need, turning from sense to SOUL keeps me singing, “That I have FOUND THE WAY.” I am not a mortal who has to “have” whatever’s tempting me, so I can be on the path to owning what I need, _NOT WHAT I WANT_, (just because it’s offered). Thank you for turning my attention to what GOD wants for me.
Thanks for your kind remarks chilesands, very glad if my comment was helpful to you. What you said is quite interesting too, how error tempts us to aquire things we don’t really need or even want, but just mesmerism at work. But we can spot this and see through it with our spiritual sense.
What a lot we have to …clean up….what a journey of gratitude we have to travel…
It is an individual awakening…..
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matt 6;19
Thank goodness we are NOT alone….encouraged at every step…Gods good is tangible, ever present at this very moment…wash away the grime of material sense and there it is..always was and always will be. Thank you Evan …much needed as usual❣️