It’s empowering to understand that as children of God, we can think rightly and agree with spiritual truth that keeps us healthy and safe from suffering.
Human experience is a testing ground for our faith. It gives us constant opportunity to sort right from wrong and commit to living the right.
One of the common temptations we face is suggestions of disease coming our way.
Images of disease are paraded before us in the media, described to us by well-meaning friends and neighbors, and may be picked up mentally at random from public consciousness. However, we can make a choice when disease presents itself to us. We can reject it. We can disagree with it and stay clear that we are going to keep living our healthy, clean pure life with God.
Mary Baker Eddy has strong words for dealing with suggestions of disease. She instructs, “’Agree to disagree’ with approaching symptoms of chronic or acute disease, whether it is cancer, consumption, or smallpox. Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. Blot out the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in sickness and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, ‘Thou art whole!’” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 390).
We are not helpless in the face of disease. It is belief, not fact, and belief can be corrected with spiritual truth.
Be quick to correct suggestions of disease with spiritual truth! Agree to disagree. And stay well.
Studying this week’s Lesson, and the instruction to gather the facts of being from
the divine Mind, I looked for an article, and found the following wonderfully
helpful article. IHere is the link.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1j1jwcuq97e?s=copylink
Thank you Maggie…❣️
Excellent article Maggie, thank you for sharing it.
Wonderful article, Maggie–thank you!
Thank you Maggie for this wonderful article
Thank you, Evan! I look forward to living and loving this message today.
Me too!
Thank you, Maggie for sharing that excellent article!
Thank you Evan and thank you Maggie for the article.
Love this Evan…and together with the article that Maggie gave the link to , made me think more about God being present at all times , whatever occurs. Then I had a bit off an ‘aha’ moment considering God as an all inclusive presence. For me, presence seems to be a more powerful word than present….
Still learning❣️
BarbaraUK, your comment brought this song to mind. I don’t know if this link will work, but there is a song Josh Henn sings on a CD called “Here and Now.” One verse says: “Right where senses tell me there is danger and I should fear, I turn away and simply say ‘I know that God is here.’ It is a beautiful hymn of the ever-presence of God. The link is to YouTube and the artist is not Josh but the song is the same. Hope it works.
https://youtu.be/mUONFroQJ5s?si=85yFAKK1RAsVFbZE
BarbaraUK, this is Josh Henn singing “Here and Now.” The name of the CD is “Open Mine Eyes.” (Again, hope this link works.)
https://youtu.be/RSyZpY0Wiqo
Thank you so much Cheryl … truly beautiful❣️
So Lovely! Thank you All and for being here to share such
beautiful inspiration. Love the message and the photo, too.
So Pretty.
Amen! Beautiful! Thank you, Evan!
“My prayer for the sick” By Eric Nelson. From the January 17, 2025 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
I can only
see
what I’m being
shown . . .
man can only
be
what is being
known . . .
by God.
In case you missed it, this link was posted last Saturday by Grateful (thank you Grateful). It’s a YouTube lecture by Evan. I hadn’t come across it before and it is so good. Evan unpacks questions that people ask, so it’s very helpful, informative and inspiring. Thank you Evan.
https://youtu.be/XojoX1oSWNE?si=kziTcM7eEnuqG5lk
Thanks for posting J. I’ve just been watching it. Really excellent.
This is just what I needed today. Thank you!
Thank you, Evan, Maggie, Cheryl, and everyone who participates in sharing these powerful spiritual truths. Such joy you’re bringing to my morning right this minute! Thank you again.
Thank you so very much Evan. These are helping everyday.
Thank you Evan for this wonderful post.
Evan,
Very timely for me – a confirmation. Sunday I “went to town” on our yard – getting our landscaping in order.. By dinner I was dealing the the very painful suggestion that I had pulled, injured, whatever, a muscle (it is not important where, haha, and not real anyway). The pain (dis-ease) was intense enough that I was having trouble rejecting the clamor for my attention. But I keep working on it, and even went to the gym yesterday (my one day a week that I do that, as an activity, rather that to “get in shape”). But last night false mortal mind was trying to tell me the trip to the gym was a mistake. But I doubled down on “agreeing to disagree”. And even in the shower I was firm in rejecting that a super hot shower had any healing value on the muscle. And today, I’m almost fully recovered and was able to continue with the yard work. So grateful for God, good, Mrs. Eddy, Christ Jesus and your Spirit Views!
Sometimes the ‘doubling down” and speaking forcefully to the lie (and I am not one to speak forcefully normally!) can be very helpful in succeeding to oust the lie. Thank you for sharing your demonstration.
Thanks Joanna. Happy to! Haha, it was too good to keep to myself! Right!?
It’s late and maybe no more readers,
but Larry I had to say I loved
Your submission
Thanks.