Do you tire easily? Are you looking for more energy as you go about your day? If so, look for it in Spirit.
Spirit is your divine energy source. All the strength, energy, power, might and capacity you need to flourish comes directly to you from Spirit. It always has and always will.
People who look for it in matter eventually lose it for it is not there. Real energy and strength are not in muscles, but in Mind, in the Mind of Spirit.
If muscles are governed by mortal mind fears, they may tire out and become useless. When governed by divine Mind, they move with ease and perform properly.
Mary Baker Eddy writes, “You say, ‘Toil fatigues me.’ But what is this me? Is it muscle or mind? Which is tired and so speaks? Without mind, could the muscles be tired? Do the muscles talk, or do you talk for them?” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 217).
To stay on top of things, be sure to issue the proper instructions for good outcomes.
Instead of seeing yourself as a weak mortal, see yourself the way God sees you—as a strong enduring healthy immortal. Tell the body the truth of your being, and it will respond favorably.
As a child of God, you are plugged into your divine energy source now, into the infinite energy and strength of Spirit. Spiritual sense is your connection to this heavenly source of strength. Use it well and use it abundantly!
Thank you for this Evan. After yet another disturbed and weary night with a long-standing restless leg issue, I was so grateful to read this today. I have often turned to Mrs Eddy’s quote about muscles and found it helpful. This belief will yield! Onward and upward! L.x
Hi Linda…hope the following opens another window of thought for you…
God’s Care
DORIS HARRISON WHITE
God’s loving arm upholds you, His care surrounds you still; Rest in this sweet assurance, Nor doubt how good His will.
See all that would oppose Him— Alike unreal, untrue; Know health and peace and plenty Abound in Him for you.
Let gratitude and gladness Replace each anxious fear; Love giveth you dominion— The Truth that frees is here!
Isn’t it beautiful…hugs B.x
Thank you for that lovely poem Barbara. It is beautiful xxx
Thank you Barbara, a lovely poem that I’ll copy and keep. Fits in with this week’s lesson as well.
I’ve been dealing with low energy for years. Falling asleep at work a lot in the day time. Then gave into taking a sleep apnea test and apparently I have a “severe version” of it. Also I found out I was low in Vitamin B12. This can also affect energy levels. (Sorry for this medical talk on a Christian Science orientated blog). But it makes me wonder. How do you pray these suggestions away ? Well, I guess what you said above is the prayer…no mater what the medical system will pin fatigue or lack of energy to be the “reason”. Spirit as the our infinite energy source, as we are made in the reflection of God (Divine Love, Divine Spirit, Divine life). I will just have to cling to this concept and cherish it a lot more deeply as my way out of having no energy to do anything after work. If you have specific metaphysical arguments that can more specifically address the health claims above, it would be most appreciated. John in Canada.
Truth is the most effective vitamin on the face of the earth. Be sure to take it in large doses! It strengthens and vitalizes, like no material belief of vitamin can ever do.
Divine Mind Governs the Human Body By Helen Wood Bauman. From the July 9, 1966 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/kdr690k154?s=copylink
Thanks for the very informative and helpful article in the Sentinel.
Thank you, Evan! And, thank you, J! Helen Wood Bauman was an amazing healer and proponent of the truths of Christian Science. Her articles are direct and to the point. “…the human self must become conscious of God, not that God must become conscious of mortal ills.” Excellent. Thank you, again.
Wow, J, this article is so very clear on the point of how the illusive, unintelligent human body is under the control of the divine Mind. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Evan and thank you J for the link to an excellent article. Many years ago as an adult as I was still running and timing myself I would repeat the scientific being and it would bring amazing results. I have always depended upon God for my source of energy. Thank you God.
Thank you Evan. I have struggled with fatigue and sleep difficulties for many years. Christian Science has helped me tremendously. Here is a quote from the chapter “Fruitage” in Science and Health that has always been helpful (p. 683):
“Through reading the textbook I learned that God has given us strength to do all we have to do, and that it is the things we do not have to do (the envying, strife, emulating, vainglorying, and so on) that leave in their wake fatigue and discord.”
This is a wonderful help in seeing where we get our energy from. When we
think it is from what we are doing or not doing to a mortal body, it can be,
as Evan writes, “eventually [lost] for it is not there”. Constantly looking to the
body or at a body, for energy or anything, can not bring us the strength or
power that we innately have as spiritual beings, not mortal. If we seek pleasure
in the senses – they are not lasting. The world Screams at us to see mortality
as what is important. If we give in to these false beliefs of energy in a physical
being, we become stuck in believing that power belongs to what we, as “mortals”
have in controlling or healing ourselves or others through material means. If these
means can be given to us, they can be taken from us also. But divine Mind’s
power is always with us as a source of energy and that is not in a body or anything
material. I guess it all comes down to the First Commandment.. What are we
trusting in and believing in – as our God. Our One God/Spirit/Soul/Principle/Mind/
Truth/Life and Love is the Only God, not little gods many… and this is where we
derive our power and strength – not by working out at a gym or giving our beliefs
to what the material senses are telling us, for they are “man-made”, believing in
the tree of good and evil, limited and materiality. In my humble opinion.
LOVe, LOVE Love, your input Carol. I saw a much higher connection with the divine Mind’s power immediately. Won’t be looking to “see” our energy at all. I’ve taken the first step by ending taking physical exercising sessions, and am practicing seeing/reflecting the Truth as well as their giving up that “false belief of providing physical energy.”
Thank you so much, chilesands. It seems the world is so focussed
on the material body lately with advertisements and remedies –
‘there’s a pill for that’ mentality that is so far removed from seeing
ourselves as natural, children of God’s creating. It seems anything
that is “physical” is mortal or limited in the finite, whereas the
spiritual is eternal with no barriers to our energy, for it is God-given.
oop’s That was the scientific statement of being found on page 468 of Science and Health. Thank you all for your comments.
Thank you J for the article by Helen Wood Batman. It’s a keeper. All your comments always help support Evan’s Spirit view.
Thanks Evan. I applied that thinking last week to a paver project I was doing at my church. The eighty 20 lb pavers and the thirty 60 lb bags of gravel and sand were delivered on two pallets. I didn’t want to leave all that sitting on our parking lot so I started moving lifting the bags into a wheel barrow and moving them to another close by location. After a few bags I thought, my this is going to get tiring fast. Then it came to me: there is no matter so the bags of sand and gravel and the pavers are all spiritual ideas of God and I’m one of His spiritual ideas. So the so called physical doesn’t factor into the movement of all that so called matter – it was me being in my right place and those spiritual ideas of God being their right place. After that I finished the relocation task quickly and without fatigue. And no stiff or soreness the next day – how could there be when we know we are not made up of muscles, bones, blood, etc. Thank you Father-Mother God!
Thank you very much, Larry! Your wonderful comment is very helpful to me. Your metaphysical prayer is so very good and valuable, so that I also can pray with it! ♡
Thank you very much indeed, Evan for your healing SpiritView – so very needed and healing! ♡
Is there no SpiritView today (Tuesday). Nothing has come onto my phone.
No new SpiritView yet. Sometimes there’s a glitch that causes a delay and very rarely Evan just skips a day. But often if there’s some website issue, it will come out later today and you should get an email in that case.
Yes, there was a glitch. But it’s posted now. Thanks for alerting me!