One time, a man voiced personal disappointment because he felt like he wasn’t demonstrating Christian Science very well. He complained that his income was low, that he should be living in a bigger house, and should be further up the promotion ladder at work.
I prayed about this later to find peace myself about his situation, and realized that he was limiting his demonstration of Christian Science by outlining a material form his demonstrations had to take before he was happy.
Christian Science is all about discovering spiritual reality, learning what is true spiritually, and then living true to it. Demonstrations are not measured materially, but spiritually.
For instance, if one thought he needed a bigger house to have home, but couldn’t afford it, he would be limiting his demonstration. He would be thinking, “I need more money before I can have home.”
But home is not a house. Home is a state of Mind we reflect. There are no limits on how much home we can reflect, live and experience wherever we happen to lie down at night.
Or if one thought she needed more money before she could feel rich, she would be limiting her demonstration. Wealth comes from God. It’s spiritual mindedness, a consciousness overflowing with love, gratitude, joy and goodwill. It doesn’t take more money to have more wealth.
We should never let matter limit our demonstrations by believing we need something material to happen first before we can make progress. This puts matter a ruler over mind, and that is a metaphysical mistake.
Mind is the boss, not matter!
Divine Mind supplies you all the wisdom, intelligence, creativity, ability and capacity you need to reflect God to the fullest. Lean on Mind, not on matter, and make your demonstrations.
There are no limits in Mind.
Thank you for this bit of much needed inspiration!
Very grateful for this post, thank you for sharing. Annmarie
So help me
We are always demonstrating by the ability to think, figure out an answer to a problem, loving some one, if it is based on a God Principal, for the good then that’s demonstration.
Even right now when I write a comment which doesn’t go through, I tried for the 4th time and finally it went through, THAT’S DEMONSTRATION!
Complaint IS poverty. It is also malpractice, assessing oneself as something other than the image of all good. Correcting our self-identification is always the solution.
thank you, Evan, – most helpful.