Have you ever gotten super worked up about an issue? Perhaps a topic of concern has triggered fear and anxiousness. Maybe the human mind has started spinning at warp speed speculating about outcomes, predicting doom, and started staring into a dark hole of despair?
If emotions are ever getting out of control, it’s a good time to say Stop! And pray to get thought centered back with God.
God always has an answer to solve our problem. When we calmly listen, we’ll find the voice of wisdom speaking to us and guiding us down a progressive path.
Heated emotions tend to ignore the voice of reason and wisdom. They get carried away with too much fear and false belief. But they can be arrested and replaced with sound spiritual reason.
The Bible says, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 1:18).
Rather than trying to solve problems with out-of-control human emotions, put those aside, and practice humility. Be willing to listen to a voice outside of yourself. Be willing to listen to God!
Spiritual sense will lead you aright.
Let spiritual reason prevail and peace will be yours.
Perfect timing Evan thank you
From which standpoint are we reasoning? by Marianne Ward:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/11ij77qvgb8
The power of godly thinking By Susan S. Collins:
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/ny41ap2tzm?s=copylink
Thanks so much, Evan for all you recent messages. This one is perfectly “timed” for our family. I will also share it with friends who are facing challenges. Had a beautiful example of God’s direction helping me and our son manage a financial challenge yesterday. Though he grew up in and graduated from the CS Sunday school, our son does not practice CS at present, but he is a wonderful problem solver. The answer to his dilemma came to him—enabling us to work through his financial challenges together, find timely solutions and giving me the opportunity to thank God verbally for his help in our conversation together.
My grandmother was a CS practitioner, who taught my mother this spiritual truism I just recalled:: “There is always a way out.” I’m so grateful today for this additional evidence of our Father-Mother’s guidance and protection.
Yes….. it is good to be uwilling … to .. be still… to quiet thought… to listen to that loving Voice ….
makes room for the much-needed angels, divine messages, answers, ever with us ……
So grateful for these healing truths…
When I recognize that everything is a call to love and is a learning opportunity to bless me so I can bless others, and when I remember that God is always communicating to each and everyone of us what we need to know and do and be, it helps me calm down, get out of the story, trust God.
At the railroad crossings there used to be a sign, and people were taught: “Stop, look, listen, and think.“ When a scary story we tell our self gets us all emotional so that we tune out God, it can feel like we’re stuck on the ego tracks with the train rushing at us. When we are willing to humbly let go of our personal attachment to a story and ego, and to instead trust and obey and glorify God, there is a calm and clarity that gets us to safety, serenity, service. Trust God and God’s testimony instead of the emotional over-reactive or morally deadening apathetic material personal story. Enjoy God’s guidance and love living you as a mutual blessing,
Thank you, Evan. Human emotions do tend to try to take over sometimes.
I recently heard an interview with a beekeeper. They were discussing
the sad decline of the bees but how bees are so necessary for our food
supply. (From a human standpoint, the bees do all the work, but who
gets to keep the honey … ) God’s design is synergistic with nature.
Although the beekeeper was wearing a protective outfit, it was
mentioned that the bees actually are really quite harmless.
It reminded me of how we need to stand guard with an impervious
armour when confronted with “real” or perceived barbs of mortal
attacks (animal magnetism) that would try to keep us from our
harmony, if we let these stings of emotions try to disrupt our peace.
Excellent Carol, thank you❣️
Very helpful – thanks Evan.
Thank you, thank you, Evan!
“Spiritual reasoning” by Richard Schaberg:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/2n7stxh723o
This is a most needed post for me right now. This past weekend a close member of my family was killed and another seriously injured – both apparently by a senseless criminal act. Thank you so much Evan for your very wise and reassuring words of truth. I am processing and praying with them as I write this. It’s amazing how often your selection of topics seem to fit that day’s needs. And thank you others who have also posted helpful remarks.
Dear William,
In thought I am embracing you and your family with Love, God’s Love. Thank you for coming here and sharing your heart with us, so that we can pray and maybe be of some comfort to you at a very challenging time. Much love.
I would like to echo what you so lovingly had written, Rose. This is such a loving
place to be, William, especially in a time of need. It is like being within a universal
family of caring and sharing. Love to all
Dear Brother,
Thank you for sharing this and know that we are with you in Love.
“Dear one, St. Paul wrote, ‘Our light afflictions. . .. work out for us a far more and exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen.’
……..This is the hour for divine Love to be very near to you in truth, supporting you with the thought that in Christian Science death is swallowed up in victory, for God is Life and everpresent. Hence death is but a transitory sense of mortals that must yield to Life everlasting. Your (loved one) lives on to meet you again. . . ”
A note from MBE to comfort a family member, signed “Tenderly yours, Mary Baker Eddy.”
I had to laugh when I read, “the human mind has started spinning at warp speed, speculating about outcomes, predicting doom…” Evan I think we are all too familiar with that experience as you describe it. And I’m glad you mentioned humility, which is so key for me.
Sometimes a small thing will trigger that little “mind,” and it just goes off, that’s what it knows how to do, it is so small and constricted and limited and can’t see the big, infinite picture of God’s goodness, our constant Being, resting in His presence. We had a good discussion about the calm, restful state of being on yesterday’s SV.
When my head is getting revved up like this about something or another it helps me to remember a thought that came one day when I had become upset and angry with someone and prayed about the situation. The thought was, “You are offended by a false belief.” I didn’t get it at first but when I thought about it, it snapped things into perspective for me. The false belief in that case was not about the person or what they did, but was the belief in loss or lack, the belief that there was a force or power that could come and take away my good or deprive me of something I needed. Then I realized I was OK, I had everything I needed, that what I need comes from God and nothing can diminish it. Then I relaxed and stopped being offended by the false belief. I started to feel free and happy, and was able to bless that person.
Rose I so enjoyed your reasoning “you are offended by a false belief”. ..when false suggestions! God’s still small voice comes in when we are calm!
Dear Rose thank you very much for your very helpful comment! It meets my need for which I am also praying to correct my thoughts about a seeming unpleasent saying of somebody. And I pray to love her more instead judging. I agree with you and with Evan that humility is most important for our progress.
Dear Evan, thank you very much for your spiritual views. Today I have to translate several words with the help of my dictionary before I understand your text completely. But that is good, so I learn more vacabularies!
Yes, Evan several times I have situations where emotions are getting out of control in my thinking about a situation with another inividuum and I am seemingly very worried
about and where I do my best to get calm and pray to get thought centered back with God and listen to His healing and comforting thoughts.
Thank you deeply Evan, for your very helpful and comforting SpiritView Blog. It’s together with the DailyLift the first I read after getting up in the morning!♡
Thank you Evan. Let the voice of God prevail as you have stated here.
I love hearing the word arrested as it pertains to stopping our thinking which is going down a path that isn’t based in spiritual Truth.
I also love the verse and the ideas you shared. Let’s reason together-with God is so helpful. Thank you Evan, and for everyone’s comments and shares.