A common misconception is that health is variable, like the weather. It may be good one day, bad another, depending upon unforeseen circumstances that come out of seemingly nowhere.
In Truth, health is not a variable at all, but a fixed fact. It’s the way God made us in Spirit. Like a circle is always round, man, the child of God, is always healthy. There is no uncertainty, ifs, ands, or buts, about it.
Expect to stay healthy. It’s the way God made you and keeps you.
Utmost thanks, dear Evan for today’s wonderfully comforting SpiritView!
You are so assuring us about our permanent and complete health as God’s beloved child. Yes, it cannot be else, because Health is a quality of God. And this week’s lesson sermon tells us, that we are living, moving and have our being in Him, so we also can only express Health and all the good qualities of God.
Thank God for Christian Science “the healing Christ in action.”
There is such joy filled expectancy and confidence in the truth of our permanent spiritually perfect health. The dire predictions of mortal mind are baseless and powerless. The Great Heart of the Universe has not one element of error, but expresses only love and peace and strength.
but why? what is the deeper explanation for God made us always healthy? I guess I’m thinking natural cycles of life…a flower withers and decays…we don’t fight it to keep it always at its peak….just thinking why do we expect man to be “always healthy”? I love this blog and don’t mean to ask a question that sparks any argument – I just am sitting here reading and thinking and sincerely wondered.
Tricia, good question! Try incorporating something Science and Health states: “The decaying flower, the blighted bud, the gnarled oak, the ferocious beast, – are unnatural. They are the falsities of sense, the changing deflections of mortal mind; they are not the eternal realities of Mind.” (p. 78)
You and we all are to know that we have and express the Mind of Christ, Truth, not a matter based, mortal existence.
Keep on thinking those questions, that’s how we gain spirituality.
I love to begin with and stick to the first chapter of Genesis, verses 26, 27 and 31, which tell us of our original, purely spiritual creation, always new and freshly expressed . Very good, or as one Bible commentary puts it, “perfect for the purpose for which God designed it.” God’s purpose for us ~~ to express the perfection of His/Her nature! Unimpeachable!
Tricia, I think trying to reconcile a human, material sense of existence with Evan’s words, which are referring to spiritual existence, is what is confusing you. I’ve found that knowing who I am spiritually takes care of who I seem to be humanly.
I agree with Rod that thinking through questions helps us all along on our spiritual journeys.
Thank you for asking your questions. I am asking those questions too. I wanted to add a poem from Mary Baker Eddy that is right before the preface of Miscellaneous Writings in Prose Works.
“If worlds were formed by matter,
And mankind from the dust:
Till time shall end more timely,
There;s nothing here to trust.
Thenceforth to evolution’s
Geology, we say, –
Mothing have we gained therefrom,
And nothing have to pray:
My world has sprung from Spirit,
In everlasting day;
Whereof, I’ve more to glory,
Werefor, have much to pay.”
It is a good question. We are actually spiritual not material- as strange as that sounds!. As the scientific statement if being says” there is no life, truth, intelligence or substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and it’s infinite manifestation for God is all in all! In the allness if God there is no power to oppose His good and perfect creation.
Thought provoking – I will follow comments with interest.
Thank you Kirsten for pointing out the wonderful poem. A statement from page 14 of our textbook has been very meaningful to me: “Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man’s dominion over the whole earth.”
That was my Christian Science teacher’s favourite quotation from S&H. Mr Robt Wm Bales was his name….wonderful teacher.
Wonderful, simple insights about our innate perfection as a reflection of God. Thank you to Evan, and all who have added to this blog today.
Tricia this is a very good question, the type I always asked before I read in an article ” whom say ye that I AM” published in the Christian Science Journal of 1903, the writer explained how she presented to someone who had previously thought Christian Science absurd because he knew a Christian scientist who said she was not sick when she was sick and he thought her to be foolish. The writer then explained to him that she seemed foolish because he did not perceive the significance of the term “I,” She went on to say that “Now when he said ‘I’ did he not refer to that body which he saw standing before him?” He admitted that he did. “When we say ‘I’ we do not refer to the flesh/body at all; we refer to being. When she said ‘I am not sick,’ she made no reference to the body, she meant that her being which is invisible to the material sense/eyes, was not sick.
When we say that God made us healthy, we are not referring to the body(matter) but God’s reflection our being which remains eternally healthy because just as Evan said, “It is the way God made us and keeps us so.
May UK
I like how you put this May. Thank you. Wish you could find the link to that article on JSH Online and post it too.
This is one of those great questions that each one grapple with at some point. . Thanks for posting it.
Something that has helped me was finally truly noticing, then acknowledging, that Truth itself doesn’t shift or change, ever. It is fixed, still and powerful and good. The human perception is essentially programmed to see and measure change, thus, the steadfastness of Truth is not as apparent sometimes. Thus the need for cultivating our natural spiritual senses. I love that Truth, Life, and Love as everlasting Principle never changes and is “an ever-present help” .
Hi May,
Is this the article you were referring to:
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/1326oys660k?s=e
Yes thanks for supplying the link. Sorry I didn’t include it in my comment but I posted my comment again when I included the writer’s name
Tricia this is a very good question, the type I always asked before I read in an article ” whom say ye that I AM” published in the Christian Science Journal of 1903,by KATE SWOPE. The writer explained how she presented to someone who had previously thought Christian Science absurd because he knew a Christian scientist who said she was not sick when she was sick and he thought her to be foolish. The writer then explained to him that she seemed foolish because he did not perceive the significance of the term “I,” She went on to say that “Now when he said ‘I’ did he not refer to that body which he saw standing before him?” He admitted that he did. “When we say ‘I’ we do not refer to the flesh/body at all; we refer to being. When she said ‘I am not sick,’ she made no reference to the body, she meant that her being which is invisible to the material sense/eyes, was not sick.
When we say that God made us healthy, we are not referring to the body(matter) but God’s reflection our being which remains eternally healthy because just as Evan said, “It is the way God made us and keeps us so.
May UK
Thank you May for this helpful explanation
Mrs Eddy writes”There is no lapse from or return to harmony”
This substantiates Evan’s blog today which helps us realize that
Yesterday’s problem is not or never was part of reality.
Thanks all and especially that poem which I have never noticed before.
Grateful for this blog and for all the above comments. Can I ask if anyone else has been having trouble getting them lately? I used to get them fairly early in the morning but since the new year it has been late afternoon and occasionally not until the following day. I once got two in one day. It is probably a problem with my equipment but I would be interested to know if anyone else has been affected. Thanks.
Yes, Linda, I experienced the same, what you are stating in your comment.
As I did not get it in my inbox I clicked to the yesterday’s SV and scrollen down to where it says left “Older” and there at the right sideas I click Ed Ar “Newer” and I got today’s SpiritView. But that is not always so, or I get it only in the evening in my inbox.
But, Evan I am really glad and grateful that at the end I receive the big spiritual nuggets. Meanwhile I learned to express more patience, which is a wonderful quality of divine Love.
Hi Linda,
The problem with the delayed emails has been on this end. Since the New Year, they haven’t been going out always as scheduled. Something changed in the programming, but we’re not yet sure what. My tech guy is working to solve the irregularity. Future posts may be coming out a few hours later than they did in the past. Thanks for your patience!
Thanks Evan and Uta. I am so pleased to eventually get them though. They are a wonderful part of my day!
I just read Kate Swope’s 1903 article mentioned above and appreciate her explanations, howbeit
kind of “old-fashioned.” (Though truth is never out of date!)
I especially appreciate her comparison of errors-of-belief to be like counterfeit dollars…only believed until one knows the truth.
I love knowing that God’s idea, man, CAN ONLY KNOW THE TRUTH.
(Man–God’s man–can never be deceived by lies about…anything!)
Whew!
Ty to Evan & crew. I so needed this now for praying for myself & my granddaughter. All good thoughts & the wonderful, clear, no-nonsense article were a real help.
I don’t know exactly how Christian Science works, but I am amazed with the demonstrations. God is always showing us how much we are cared for and those around us are cared for. A couple of weeks ago, the thought came that I should investigate a new doggie daycare close to where I live. When I am out of town, my dog attends one out in the country which she loves but it is pretty far away to take her there all the time. This new one was really close to where I live. She went through an evaluation and then could attend whenever I signed her up.
I was heading out to an activity last Saturday and that still small voice said go back and get her and drop her off at daycare. I had not even made an appointment so I did not know if they would be able to take her. I turned around, picked her up and took her there. They had room so they could take her into daycare that day. When I returned from my activity, there was a fire truck in my neighbor’s driveway and a fire chief’s truck in my driveway. There were several emergency vehicles all over as well and the Red Cross. There had been a fire next door. Everyone was ok. And, the fire had been contained to the inside. A side door had been charred on the outside but other than that, you could not tell there had been a fire from the outside. I was so grateful that God had taken care of my dog and put her in a safe place and had taken care of my neighbors so that they were completely safe too. So, so grateful!! 🙂
Good listening Kristen! God’s angel messages are always guiding us, guarding and governing us. So glad to hear all were safe and cared for. Thanks for sharing your experience. (=
Thank you Evan for your reminder today. I have been working hard to combat the world belief of contagion. It has been helpful to claim that health is more contagious than disease. When I’m out in public and someone is exhibiting unhealthy symptoms I go quickly to the thought that health is more contagious than sickness. It always put a smile on my face and wipes out any concern. Our knowing the Truth counteracts the lie. So grateful for Science and Health and the health-giving truth it contains. (=
I like this Rhonda – Health is more contagious than disease. And love more contagious than hate. Thank you for sharing! :):)
I was struck last week with the story of the burning bush. The bush appeared to be on fire, but it wasn’t destroyed. This seemed to be a metaphor I could use in praying about the fires in Australia. What we see and experience humanly isn’t the whole picture. The essence— or spiritual reality— of that bush was intact,. The same is true for each of us. God got Moses’ attention in that way and saw that he was ready for the assignment God was about to give him.
When we understand spiritually that our Life is eternal, we are ready for how God wants us to use that understanding to free ourselves and others from belief in what Science and Health lists as “birth, growth, maturity, decay.”