If you keep waiting for something to happen in the future you’ll keep waiting, because with God there is no future. There is only the now.
God is now! Live in the now of God’s omnipresent, ever-present goodness and find your hopes for tomorrow fulfilled today.
A lovely reminder, thanks, Evan!
Postponing seems to be mortal mind’s nature – a trap, too, because there would just be an empty nut in its virtual package. 🙂
Why should any one postpone his legitimate joy, and disregard
his lawful inheritance, which is “incorruptible and undefiled”?
says Mary Baker Eddy.
I get this nagging feeling often, that I’m waiting for tomorrow. I see it this morning as mortal mind’s attempt to cheat us out of today. I see now that I have to be so vigilant to guard against this intruder – “behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” II Cor 6:2 Thank you Evan!
This from an article by Bev DeWindt on spirituality.com:
If we think in terms of either the “good old days” of the past or the “bad old days” of the past, we rob ourselves of the understanding that this very day is the day that God has made, one endless day—without night, without darkness, without past. This day is “the good old day.” Therefore, this day has got to be the best day we have ever had—if we have learned anything at all of the Master’s instruction about forgiveness. Why? Because we know more than we did yesterday—more about forgiveness.
As thought rises, experience rises accordingly.
“We own no past, no future, we possess only now,” Mrs. Eddy wrote (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 12). Then, why would we, or should we, or could we, waste this very now that we have? Our now will not be shaped by past memories as we gain “. . . new views of divine goodness and love.” As thought rises spiritually, experience rises accordingly.
Ever since that healing, which occurred in my own thought, I have always cherished my now. The one Spirit, I recognized, was and is perfect and good, always providing, protecting, and presenting all good, not only for me and mine, but also for everyone in the entire universe, right now.
It’s never a question of how can I forgive? Forgiveness is a command. Why? Because Jesus said, “You forgive not seven times but seventy times seven.” The best part is that accompanying impulsion to progress. It all leads to untold joy and unbelievable relief in our hearts. That progress permeates all aspects of our experience.
Bev DeWindt is a Christian Science practitioner and teacher who lives in Arcadia, California, United States.
This is just what I need “now”. Thanks Evan.