Here’s a statement that arrests attention if one is interested in making quick progress toward better results in life.  “If at present satisfied with wrong-doing, we must learn to loathe it” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 240).

Wrong doing brings bad results.  It causes us to make mistakes, exercise poor judgement, send us into a slew of suffering and stop good from happening.  There is nothing attractive about wrong doing.  It’s an arch enemy to progress.

Mrs. Eddy is so clear on the evils of wrong doing that she said we should loathe it.  Loathe is a very strong word.  It is a deep repulsion and disgust for something.

What is wrong doing we want to avoid?  Hate, resentment, envy, jealousy, lust, laziness, fear, sympathy with disease, are a few errors that are enemies to success.  None of them are necessary.

Thankfully, we have the Mind of Christ to claim and live out.  It’s the Mind of God, a Mind that is filled with love, forgiveness, mercy, compassion, goodwill, calm, peace and health.  It is a Mind that inspires right thinking, right action, and good results.

Loathe wrong doing.  Love right doing.  And reap the benefit.  Life goes much better that way.