When you gain a new understanding of God, it sticks with you forever. You never lose it.
For instance, when I was a youngster, I was taught that God is everywhere. That no matter where I stood, traveled, resided or thought about being, God was there. It was an absolute fact that I could depend upon being true forever. And it has been. I have always been able to find God wherever I am, at any time, and in any place.
Some people worry about losing their spiritual insights, and then not benefiting from them any longer. But this is an error that can be put quickly to rest with the truth that whatever comes from God, lasts forever. You never lose it. It’s like your name. Once you know your name, its yours, forever. And you don’t forget it.
Have no fear of losing anything that comes from God. It is spiritual, and by nature, eternal. It will never disappear.
Blind faith, shallow belief, and doubting acceptance come and go. They are not reliable, and do have a fleeting effect. But these do not come from God.
Spiritual understanding comes from God. Truth comes from God. Truth is God. And that’s why you can’t lose it, because God, Truth is forever, unchangeable, undeniable, unmoving.
Once you see Truth, you will never lose what you see. It’s yours forever. And the healing effect that comes from seeing Truth is yours forever too. It won’t leave you. Its healing effect is permanent.
I was studying my lesson and noticed I had new mail. The first thing I saw was “Once you get it, you never lose it.”
I knew I would appreciate the whole article. I do!! Thank you!!
I love it!! Thank you so much!
Blind faith is an unproven conjecture, not an insight into the nature of reality. Asking ourselves to believe blindly is like asking an architect to build a roof on the basis of a geometrical hunch. Naive belief looks good on the outside, but I wouldn’t stand under it! Understanding (pun intended?) is effective and enduring, and no one can take it away.
Thank you so very much Evan! This is especially helpful when working with “seeing”!! This would make a great “Daily Lift” too! Thank you again and again!!!
Thanks, Sarah, for your insight. That would include all of our faculties: seeing, hearing, bodily functions, and of a sound mind.
ohhh thank YOU Lori! I need to know this so much at the moment for a family member! I like the way you said tha..isn;t it great that we can all read something and each person sees it a different new way then this can spread to helping others!!
I have tomes of notes taken down over the years.. to reread.. lest I lose the ideas therein ..so this definitely goes to my ❤ as my greatest desire is to hold onto each wonderful idea! What God gives is permament, forever – and the lessons we learn are eternal, too…..I have no fear of forgetting them..ever! Or, having to learn the same lessons over again!
I LOVE that! Knowing this gives me such reassurance and freedom! Merci Evan! Great point!
Colleen thank you for your comment. I can relate to the note taking. I especially appreciate your strong conviction of “never forgetting the ideas, ever!” That inspired me to know I can get there too. I remember a time when I would call a practtioner and frantically try to write down word for word what was being said so I could take in the ideas. Not helpful. It always ended in my not really taking in the ideas and only having them half written down, not making sense. Now, I listen with full attention and jot down the core ideas after hanging up the phone. Another time I wrote little ideas from my daily study on sticky notes and put them in my pocket for quick reference theoughout the day. This was helpful and sort of hilarious. After 6 months of this, I had yellow sticky notes with powerful truths written on them everywhere. I would find them randomly and “re-use” the ideas. Apparently I also dropped many on accident here and there. Several times I found them in various places around the campus I worked at. Maybe they reached others.
Trista thats so cute and a bit hilarious with the sticky notes! I actual use bound books and wrote in them..up to 20 now teehee! it’s so fun to re-read them tho and I always am surprised what I jotted down..even the simplest ideas hit home again and again. .sometimes it comes to me as a fresh idea – tho we know they are each ageless ones!
Why do sunsets inspire ?
Why does nature or
Love inspire…?
We all know the
answer…
And all use different
words to describe..
It’s our true nature
to know these things
we knew as a child…
Yes thanks al lot Maximo, it is so right and wonderful what you say in your poem. I would like, if you allow, end your poem with a few words of truth: … and still know as God`s forever child! 🙂
You can always add to the poems…
Your thoughts are always so beautiful…!
thank you very much Maximo !
As love is reflected in love…
Thanks so much, Evan. Yes, when we’ve proven a truth and demonstrated it in our lives, it is there forever. It can’t diminish, and we can’t ask ourselves “is this true?” because we’ve already proven it to be true. God is good, omnipresent, and omnipotent and this fact has been proven to be true. Amen!
Great summary!
When I read today’s blog, this came to mind:
“All the good the last hath had remains too make our own time glad”. This was included in a testimony I heard more than 50 years ago, and has helped and comforted me many times
That’s what I’m trying to get realigned with now. I studied A Course in Miracles while I attended Unity Church. It’s VERY similar to CS in that it emphasizes that only God is real and anything that is not of God is unreal. Though unlike CS, it doesn’t emphasize on the healing part. I fell more or less out of touch with it after I outgrew Unity and spent a year without going to church or doing much of anything spiritually related at all. Then I felt called to CS in very late January or very early February of last year and have been doing my best to study and apply it ever since. I can’t tell you how glad I am to come back into this. 🙂
Thank you for this topic! It is a very important one. Many times along my CS journey I have gone through periods or cycles in which I have made tangible progression in my spiritual understanding, and then it’s followed by a seemingly real and shocking material, human experience which seems to shake all that I’ve just gained. It used to really mesmerize my thought with discouragement. But I have learned with help from a dear friend and practitioner as well as various CS materials that this is just aggressive mental suggestion trying to make a last ditch effort to overcome my thought and I can see it for what it is, nothing! The following quote from Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy has been very helpful to me: “In the dark hours, wise Christian Scientists stand firmer then ever in their allegiance to God. Wisdom is wedded to their love, and their hearts are not troubled. Falsehood is on the wings of the winds, but Truth will soar above it. Truth is speaking louder, clearer, and more imperatively than ever. Error is walking to and fro in the Earth, trying to be heard above Truth, but it’s voice dies out in the distance. Whosoever proclaims Truth loudest, becomes the mark for errors shaft. The archers aim at Truth’s mouthpiece; but a heart loyal to God is patient and strong. Justice waits, and is used to waiting; and right wins the everlasting victory.” Yes! Truth endures error gives up!
Thank you Trista…this was so helpful and very encouraging to me.
Karen, I’m so glad!
Thank you Evan for this convincing message.
Thank you Trinka for that quote and your last remark “Truth endures, error gives up.
We are proving this in our spiritual journey.
thank you Evan for this very lovely inspiration and giving us always the conviction! But I try to explain how I have proof of today`s topic. When I read the first sentence I think “yes, but first I must gain this new understanding of God.”
In former years (decades ago) I was taught in Sunday School about our good God and I am really grateful for that learningtime. But later when I worked I just read the lesson sermon in the morning and that was it. But that is not enough. But lateron when I became a member of different churches, because I lived in several big cities of Germany, I was taught another time through working in different offices of the branchchurches. To be an active member of church teaches, blesses and heals us. I can give witness of that, and I am utmost thankful for that. But that was not a human teaching like in Sunday School (whereby also in SS the Christ is teaching), it was learning from the greatest teacher there will ever be, namely the healing Christ. And what we are taught by the Christ, the idea of Truth, we can never forget, as that is given us from God forever!.
Am so grateful for this really blessing SpiritView blog of Evan!
Thank you all for your comments and Trista – I also love your last truth thought: Truth endures, error gives up, as had never really been!
Una,
Thank you for your amazing and continual exuberance!
Matthews
and thank you for your humor in your comments 🙂