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.
Wow!
Thank you Evan, an awakener to sleepy mortal thought!
I listened to the following Journal article this morning. The author’s voice is so engaging and gentle as she reads.
“Lifting our thought to God, Spirit, as a seeker of Truth, we are blessed with the knowledge that the answers to life’s enigmas are entirely spiritual and comfortingly available.”
Abigail Mathieson Warrick
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/1cz6cfzoi9i?s=copylink
Thank you for your unfoldmen. Just what is needed.
Powerful. Arresting of attention indeed.
Thank you, Evan.
“Living rightly” can also be as simple as real eyes-ing that one must leave a job, regardless of the “perks” when it begins to cause one to question one’s own ethics. “Loss is gain” in many more ways than a fat paycheck or status.
Thank you for « loss is gain »
There was a movie years ago in the 80’s called
« Do the right thing » was produced by Spike Lee »
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1l0hd10bgt6?s=copylink
Excellent article. To Those Wanting to Change Their Life by Russ Gerber. ❣️
Spike Lee..lovely
… one might read TOMMY DOUGLAS by VINCENT LAM
before Spikes time .. but knew alot about dropping all…material so called wealth
for the Goodness of ALL in All..
rings through today.. Amen..Thank you SpiritViewers transforming thought
…… leven-ing up and beyond
Thank you Evan and all! It’s easy to think we aren’t able to “do right” or “think rightly” because there is some other power that prevents us from doing what we know is best. Romans 7:19 even has Paul lament: “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”
But Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health corrected the belief that we are unable to control our thoughts and actions when she wrote:
If you believe in and practise wrong knowingly, you can at once change your course and do right. Matter can make no opposition to right endeavors against sin or sickness, for matter is inert, mindless. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 253:18–21)
This statement from S&H also came to thought after reading Evan’s blog this morning:
Question. — What is intelligence?
Answer. — Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 469:7–9)
The omnipresence part of that is what really grabbed my attention this morning. I realized as I sat in a room of my house thinking about that statement that the room was full of intelligence! Intelligence is everywhere and therefore we all have access to intelligence 24 x 7. In fact, our true identity is the expression of intelligence. Because we can only express intelligence, we always have the ability to know what is right and do what is right (know the truth and express truth in our every action). And because God is Truth (the source of truth), if we love God, it will just be natural to loathe anything unlike truth.
Here’s a link to a few paragraphs from Science and Health that I found inspired to read and think about related to the blog topic today (the paragraph before and after the citation shared above).
https://www.christianscience.com/publishing/primary-texts-bible-and-science-and-health/science-and-health/chapter-viii-footsteps-of-truth?citation=SH%20253:9-253:31
P.S. It occurred to me that my comment above may have left the impression that Paul thought he was a slave to wrong suggestions and there was no remedy for that. Quite the contrary. If you keep reading in Romans you’ll find this in Romans 8:
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Here’s another article on this topic that Kathy Fitzer shared in her Cedars Camp MET last week on the Bible Lesson on Everlasting Punishment (i.e., how wrong thinking/acting is like carrying around a boulder…and we’d all loathe carrying a boulder around with us all day!).
Some surprising things about sin
Kim Crooks Korinek
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1c5ggwc4d0y?s=copylink
Do you know how many things have to be right for one wrong perception to exist? And that wrong perception can only last as long as the deception is accepted, then it vanishes lacking any eternality of its own.
I learned this the hard way, but I did learn that wrong doing NEVER satisfies.