When you make decisions about your state of health, amount of supply or relationships with others, do you consult the human memory or your divine memory to draw conclusions?
There is a big difference!
For instance, after you wake up in in the morning in bed and start to think about how yesterday went to determine how today will go, you consulted the human memory. And if the memories of yesterday were not good, you might start to think that today might not be too good either.
Or if you are deciding how healthy your body is and consult a medical diagnosis stored in thought, you are relying upon mortal memory to form your belief.
Or, if you are about to meet with a co-worker, and you think about a past confrontation that was not pleasant and worry that this new meeting is going to be confrontational too, you are relying upon a mortal memory to form your expectations.
If you spend a few moments, I’m sure you could form a much longer list of examples! People are leaning on human memories all day long to form conclusions, expectations and opinions about what is going to happen next.
The problem with consulting the human memory for guidance and knowledge is that its knowledge base is often over ridden with error, mistaken notions, immature concepts, and false beliefs. There are undoubtedly many good memories and healthy views entertained by the human mind, but the danger lies in accepting the undesirable points of view.
The way to prevent being used and abused by past bad memories is to get into the habit of consulting the divine memory.
There is one Mind—the divine Mind. And this Mind has a perfect memory.
By perfect memory, I mean it remembers everything perfectly as it exists in the Mind of God—wholly good, beautiful, intelligent, and full of love and goodness.
As children of God, we all reflect the one Mind by nature. We have the perfect memory of divine Mind built into our being and always present in our consciousness. Thinking is our opportunity to express the divine Mind and consult its divine memory. When we do, we gain the right concept of anything and anyone.
So, next time you wonder about your health, consult the divine memory. What does God know about your health?
When you wonder about your ability to pay the bills tomorrow, don’t consult how well you paid your bills last month. Go deeper. Go into the divine memory and consult what God knows about your ability to demonstrate supply.
If you’re wondering how well you’re going to get along with another person, don’t consult a human memory of how well you got along with them last time you met. Consult the divine memory and accept what God knows about your ability to love them, forgive anything and find the common good.
The divine memory is filled with images of love, truth, beauty, intelligence, capacity and ability. The divine memory is always working in your favor to bring the very best out of you. The divine memory has the correct concept stored in thought that will do you the most good to know.
Be alert to not let the inferior mortal memory get in the way of listening to the divine memory. What God remembers and knows to be true is all the information you need to gather!
Next to the marginal heading of “Immortal memory,” Mary Baker Eddy wrote,
“In Science, all being is eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmonious in every action. Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized opposite. This spiritualization of thought lets in the light, and brings the divine Mind, Life not death, into your consciousness” Science and Health, p. 407.
So useful…thank you!
Thanks Evan so much. Your inspirations come like an answer and meet the need of the day. Yes of course consulting the Divine Mind and not the human mind or past memories surely puts you into the correct perspective, and helps you to think and act correctly.
Since God is the all knowing Mind and He knows only good, by divine reflection we his children can only know good as the reality.
I realy really love this and I desire to live it too!!
Thank You so very much Evan!
Very powerful nuggets to start my day. The struggles about human memory versus divine knowing will help me today. I have been asked by someone at my Volinteer Position to assistance in a conflict resolution situation between employees and volunteers. I feel fortified to attend this task with God, Love finding the “common good” as you stated. Thank you Evan.
OK ! Potent strategy. So let me try to put this in my own words.
The human thinking and memory is a catch-all , maybe ‘wastebasket’ for good & bad, genius & junk, true & illusion. I have to keep sifting and winnowing to find the reliable & viable.
If instead, I tune-in to the memory-base of Divine Mind, that is, the precision of consistent Principles, I will have a fact-based foundation on which to make smart decisions.
I want to have ‘clear-channel’ receptivity so as to align my mind with the Mind of the Divine.
There must be many ways to focus my thoughts, my memory on universal Truth.
This is so helpful that I just sent it to a friend. I had urged the friend not to give a false belief of accident and injury any “history.” Your concept of not consulting human memory is a wonderful way to describe the same thing. But you take it to the important, next step needed for healing, and that is to instead, consult the divine memory of Mind, God, and learn what’s really true, the good that is all that is happening. My favorite third point you made is, “The divine memory has the correct concept stored in thought that will do you the most good to know.” So we can trust we’ll always get the exact idea we need, if we just ask, what does God, divine Mind know about this? Wonderful! Thank you, Evan.
I have a different answer. The matter of History is what confuses me in this blog. The many mistakes that were the cause of many wars of the past could happen again if forgotten. What we as C/S have to do is to remember them, yes, but then replace them with the divine memory to obliterate them ever happening again. We can’t obliterate an enemy if not thought of it is obliterated FIRST!
Also, when people truly reflect the divine Mind, and live Love unselfishly, there will not be a repeat of wars. The selfishness, envy, jealousy, hatred, etc., that lead to wars won’t be present in consciousness to start a war in the first place. A consciousness of Truth and Love today erases the causes of war that happened yesterday.
Dear Tobias, I always like reading your input and I would like to share something with you from Mary Baker Eddy in Retrospection and Introspection pg. 21:25: “Mere historic incidents and personal events are frivolous and of no moment, unless they illustrate the ethics of Truth.” And she continues on pg. 22: “The human history needs to be revised, and the material record expunged.”
Lovingly,
Mindy Stewart
One of the best blog’s. It’s a wonderful help. Thanks Evan
Mindy: Thanks for the information which frees my thought of previous events.