“With God, all things are possible” (Matt. 19:26). If you’re ever tempted to get frustrated, a more expansive realization of this truth can take that frustration away!
Frustration comes from entertaining a limited sense of possibility. For instance, if you think your wealth is measured by how much money is in your bank account, you might feel frustrated about your economic prospects if your bank balance dwindles or disappears. But if you understand that wealth is spiritual and has nothing to do with how much money is in your bank account, you won’t be wasting time watching your bank balance. You’ll be actively demonstrating wealth by listening for profitable ideas coming from God, acting on them and seeing results. The good you do will prosper the bank balance.
The divine Mind never gets frustrated, for Mind knows no limits.
It’s the human mind that gets frustrated when it tries to accomplish things on its own, without divine Mind’s help.
Divine Mind is your ever-present Helper!
God gives you everything you need to follow through with a progressive idea. All the resources, help, support, talent, skill, wisdom, intelligence, and creativity that you need to be successful is coming directly to you from divine Mind. There are no limits on how far you can go and how much you can accomplish. With God, there are unlimited possibilities.
So, no more frustration. Focus on realization—realization of what is possible with God. It is glorious!
This is spot on Evan! 🙂
You give us reminders about demonstrating the absolute.
“All things are possible with God” Is one fo my “go to” Bible verses.
I remember, when I sat at my typewriter in grad school, crying with tears of frustration. When I regained my poise in humble petition to divine Mind, the words flowed and the project seemed to write itself!
Evan, each day’s inspiration is “ the pearl of great price” Mrs. Eddy tells us to treasure.
As always, very grateful for this blog !
Hymn 46
Day by day the manna fell:
O, to learn this lesson well.
Still by constant mercy fed,
Give me, Lord, my daily bread.
Day by day the promise reads,
Daily strength for daily needs:
Cast foreboding fears away;
Take the manna of today.
Lord, my times are in Thy hand:
All my sanguine hopes have planned,
To Thy wisdom I resign,
And would mold my will to Thine.
Thou my daily task shalt give;
Day by day to Thee I live;
So shall added years fulfill
Not my own, my Father’s will.
Thanks Evan – a timely reminder to remember all those doors that have been opened.
These blessed posts deliver the manna needed for each day’s spiritual nourishment. Thoughts are inspired,- the famished affections are fed,- and spiritual sense is enlarged. Thank you Evan for your love that is so freely given. And gratitude to all for the hymns, poems, links, and comments that feed the hungry heart.
I have learned that if a post does not appear in my inbox I can go to the previous day’s post and then scroll down and click on Newer.
I did the same thing of going to yesterdays blog and clicking on newer as it wasn’t in my email this morning. Being an artist I related to the illustration for today’s blog. Message is right on Thank you.
I did the same than Linda and jane, to click on “newer”.
Am very happy now for your loving uplifting of my thinking with today`s SpiritView. Thank you Evan!
With God all things are possible. That is so wonderful and healing of frustration. God does not know such thing. Rather I am very grateful to learn that God is always with us, meeting our needs lovingly!
This week it is really hot here in Germany. And I pray with the truth from this week`s lesson from Science and Health “Let us feel the energy of Spirit, leading us into newness of Life.” Oh I needed it. And one afternoon I sat down at my computer and started to write the records of our membership meeting end of July this year. It was a long record, however the right ideas came very harmoniously and effortless. I know I did this as God`s expression, and was joyfull after I finished it successfully.
Thanks to all for your comments and specially for hymn 46 from Martine. It is a wonderfully comforting and healing song which I love dearly.
Thank yo Evan and all for the inspirations so lovingly shared here.
I, too, had to go to yesterday’s blog for today’s. So grateful to be able to retrieve the missing blog so no crumb of truth are lost.
Thanks,nicely said, Rose. And such a beautiful foto ! 🙂
I love the idea of not measuring our good by looking at things materially, but rather spiritually. Evan gave the example that if wealth is measured by checking the bank balance, frustration can result. All our spiritual qualities: wealth, health, joy, peace, harmony, safety, love etc. are provided, without interruption, by God, good.
Sometimes it can seem difficult to perceive this way, but I try to lean on God, the sustaining infinite, to help my thought lift to the reality of being.
Thank you to all commenters and those that so generously share articles, hymns, poems and divine ideas. I appreciate it so much.
Thank you so much Evan. This is perfect for me right now. Exactly what I’m praying about. This is a very much needed answer to prayer. Bless you. ♡
Thank you Evan for this blog. My frustration is gone. I’m content, full of love, peace and harmony.
Realising my birth is from Spirit ,Mind alone gives me freedom from earthly frustration. Thank you for making me think about this today Evan. Your loving kindness is an example to us all❣️
Disappointed as a child that I didn’t get to sign up for dance lessons, God has graciously placed me in a dance class of women still eager to learn and be healthy. Your topic today is so true! Thank you.
A favorite Bible teacher once said “If you’re feeling frustrated, it’s likely you are trying to make something happen by yourself.”
Mrs. Eddy said that one purpose of Love is to create trust in good (579:12). We cannot create trust ourselves, and we don’t have to! Trust is part of our spiritual DNA.
One definition of “trust” from the Amplified Classic translation is “Joyful and confident expectation”. We can’t create this either – we are not creators. But God provides this too!
God utterly trusts Her own omnipotence, and is joyous and confident in Her abilities! we simply reflect that trust. Trust eliminates frustration!
Caroline, thank you so much for this view on trust. I have been trying to make myself trust more to follow all the commands we have been given. Your comment “We cannot create trust ourselves. and we don’t have to! Trust is part of our spiritual DNA,” puts it in the proper perspective. We do indeed “simply reflect that trust.” Thank you.
This also removes the frustration I feel with myself in not being able to do it myself.. Thank you for your well-stated work, Evan and all commenters. Much appreciated.
I so needed this today. I so need to see the allness of God today and listen for his direction, having been made aware of two major breaches of trust. Thank you.
I love the thought that one purpose of Love is to create trust in good. 579:12.
Isn’t the leading error in frustration that someone didn’t get it done ( that someone can be me)?
How liberating to know God’s unceasing activity of good is always accomplishing, fulfilling and completing what needs to be done..
At the top of page 579 Mrs. Eddy quotes Rev.: “..I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.”
Thanks to all contributors this morning, it’s Saturday here! Did I miss something yesterday?
It’s all good.
Ideas abound, implementing them takes faith. Like a turtle who gets no where without sticking his neck out, we act on faith that gets us going!
A man in the desert, thirsty and looking for water comes upon a pitcher pump attached to a well.
With a sign. “Use the jar of water to prime the pump. And all will flow for as much as you need.
Please fill the jar after you leave it for the next in need.” If thirsty enough to drink the priming water instead of dumping it down the pitcher pump, to expand the leather washer, he may have quenched some of his thirst. The next one needing this water would be out of luck. And the journey ahead of this thirsty man would not be supplied. To dump the jar of water down the well shaft and wait for the promised supply took faith,. “The substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.” And the need for supply is answered.
Very grateful for his mornings SpiritView, Always lights a path for correct reasoning.
Thank all of you for all you share.
Hi David,
I appreciate your pump in the desert analogy. There is a wonderful song called Desert Pete by Ron Lloyd on the album Sky Country (Best Of Ron Lloyd) I tried to copy it, but I guess I don’t know how. You can probably google it. I think you would like it.
Theodora
Thanks to all who have responded to my comment on Never Stuck.. I’m feeply geateful for the love expressed.there and every day on this blog. What a blessing Evan has given us. Thanks so very much Evan!!!
Thanks to Evan for this blog. It is an inspiration every day.
And thanks to all who comment. They are so relevant and important.
Much Love and Appreciation!!!!!
Cannot quite let the lovely painter girl image go off my screen. The part about realization leaves so much room for expectancy and our branch testimony meeting shared that – “Good is the new normal’.
I go to this post over and over. It is so helpful.