I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me.
~ Isaiah 45:5
To worship one God is incredibly liberating.
The one God of the Bible is a God of Love, Truth, Life, and Spirit. It’s a good God that loves us, watches out for us, and gives us everything we need to prosper in His way.
But there are times when we may be tempted to worship other gods. If any type of anger, resentment, fear, disease, material obsession, self, greed, and their kin, sneak into thought, we’ve lost sight of the one God of Love. We are worshipping other gods.
Be alert! Stand guard! Refuse to bow down to the gods of mortal mind which only lead to suffering.
Honor the one God. Adore the one God. Stick with the one God and live a spiritually inspired life of peace and joy. Health abounds there!
The one God, a God of Love and Life, is worthy of your full attention.
When I first came into C.S. I was astonished to learn what it means to have
other gods, Things which I thought were a part of life and had to be dealt with
by what the material world had decided was the way to do it – or that we just
had to put up with it and make the best of whatever was troublesome, was needing
a complete change of thought. I had never thought of them as gods, but if we
accept them as real, that is what they become to us as long as we believe it.
I had been attending regularly a C of E church, which was just over the road from
where I lived as a child, and had been confirmed. But nothing was ever said about
turning to God for all our needs.,and it never made me feel that God was Love
and an ever present help in trouble.
So I began to learn in C.S. that God was the ONLY power, and that anything unlike Him had no power.at all. What a revelation! According to the teachings of C.S., I discovered that I didn’t need to fear
anything that claimed it could harm me in any way. I saw that there was nothing to fer – no fear in fact,;
no sickness that had power to harm me, no food that had power for good or bad etc. etc. I begab
to learn how to overcome material claims to my well-being, and, of course, that is an on-going activity.
I am glad to be reminded of this today, as material claims do creep in if we are not watchful, and
this truth that there is only one God, and He does not give His power to anyone or anything else.. This
understanding is a wonderful help in our prayers not only for ourselves, but for the whole world.
I’m going to keep this truth uppermost in my consciousness all the time. Thank you Evan.
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Thanks Maggie for your helpful thoughts and experiences relating to Evan’s excellent topic – Only One God. I enjoyed hearing about how you first found CS, or actually how it found you, even though you initially resisted the teachings. So interesting how Life, Mind is always guiding us in right paths.
Also thanks for replying to my question in yesterday’s SV about Mrs. Eddy addressing us as mortals in the quote from S&H. I agree as you say, that she must have been referring to those who believe they and all of us are mortals, and “have not yet begun to earnestly seek the true status of man.” I guess she tried to reach people at the level of their seeming current belief and then lift them up into higher Truths.
Thank you for this extremely helpful post!
Thank you Maggie for your post. I found it very helpful. A good elaboration on todays SV subject. As always many thanks to Evan for all he posts.
Thank you, Evan and Maggie for this. I sometimes struggle with the fact that I didn’t grow up in Science, therefore it is seems hard for me to understand, or even was forbidden by my previous faith. But I have hope that there is a way; it is helpful to know that anything other than God is not the Truth, that is really an idol. Imagine fear and idol— but it is because I let it take me from God, who loves and saves.
Angel, It might help to read my testimony as to how I came into Christian Science
Here is the link https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/19lam2ido6y?s=copylink
Thank you Maggie. Beautiful testimony. ❣️
Thank you very much dear Maggie for your beautiful testimony which shows that Love is always guiding and winning the case.
It’s very nice to listen to you, reading your article. I love to listen to your pretty nice australian English. ❤️
oh J shares also an inspiring article here. Will read it tomorrow. Thank.you dear J. ❤️
Thank you dear Evan for this utmost important weekend SpiritView about the Oneness of God. It is very needed, helpful and inspiring! And the other day SpiritView was about the Allness of God. Such a wonderful spiritual combination!! ❤️
Thank you, Uta for your loving words. I have to own though that I am English through and through, although I used to know a lot of Australians. I pick up accents easily because I love the different inflections in people’s voices. I must have retained some of it which you detected. I love to read of your appreciation for every comment here – you take it all in and make it clear that you gain so much from it. Wonderful.
Maggie ♥️
Sorry, Angela – somehow the “a” didn;t register at the end of your name.
Thank you so much Maggie for your testimony. Thank goodness that when we open up our consciousness to all the good around us …divine Mind leaps in to encourage our seeking to yield finding❣️
Thank you, Maggie, for such an inspiring explanation and special thanks to you, Evan. What a wonderful reminder of the need to “Stand Porter at the door of thought…” We achieve our spiritual dominion in Christian Science by not wavering and not allowing mortal mind to creep in with its subtle and aggressive suggestions that would tempt us to challenge the allness of God and rely on such things as personal sense. While we’re all working through our individual demonstrations and may diverge at times, there’s no short cut to the first commandment and following God completely, and that’s what provides us with dominion over all of mortal mind’s claims.
Well said all ! Sincere thanks.
Thankyou, Evan, this is such an eye opener. I’ll be watching my thought more closely. also thankyou Maggie for sharing your testimony with us ,so inspiring. And also to everyone sharing their Inspirations Love to all.
This article is so true and helpful.
God is LoveLife Truth Mind Soul Spirit.
Thank you.
WOW ! Thank you Maggie,I loved reading how you came into Christian Science. Gratitude to Evan for a wonderful Spirit view today.
Thank you Maggie for sharing your experience. The article below talks a bit about Mrs. Eddy’s background with a traditional church/beliefs. All I have is the pdf version, sorry.
“Spiritual healing – it really happens” By Elise L. Moore. From the December 17, 1990 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel:
https://elisemoore.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/20041111184036.pdf
Great article, thank you J for sharing it.
Here’s a link
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/10q78tfkun6?s=copylink
Thank you so much for attaching a shareable link Martine, appreciate it. 🙂
Thank you, J – a very good article.
Yes, thank you once again J for seeking helpful articles we can all access.B.x
Thank you Evan and all. It is a wonderful gift we are given to cherish and live every day.
Thank you, Evan,
Thank you Evan for this most important reminder of the absolute necessity of honoring one God. Very clear and insightful Spirit View and thank you to Maggie and others for very helpful and inspiring contributions.
God’s great law is, “I am All”. The second great law is, “God is Love”. The first envelopes the allness and oneness of omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. Descriptive words become inadeuqate, but they do provide some sense for human understanding of the infinite.
Margaret Laird’s insight, “I am that I am” defines our state of being whereby the first “I am” is God and the sescond ” I am” is man as God’s reflection.
I just love reading Evan’s post when it comes in, usually evening here in Australia. I try to think about his words as I fall asleep and wake in the morning to eagerly read how everyone has been inspired.
Every day’s post adds to my understanding of who I really am as a wholly spiritual child of God and I am very grateful to Evan and all who contribute. Some wonderful contributions today. Thank you all.
Thank you Evan….the more we accept God as All….the more we become aware that God Is All.❣️
hmmmmm…….”anger, resentment, fear, disease, material obsession, self, greed…….”
Evil/error/false beliefs…exposed as flimsy illusions, all trying in vain
to be included in God’s allness and goodness. No possible WAY!
Grateful for SV, and all comments!
Thank you, dear Evan. Your message is exactly what i needed to hear today amidst disturbing news. I also appreciate your Sentinel article on loving our enemies.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/11ppwiruylq?s=copylink
And thank you Maggie for your sharing and your testimony. Do you recall which issue of the Journal had the article about the healing purpose of the solo? I see there are several.
I am so glad this has been such a help to so many. Dear L, at the top of the article
it gives you the details. It was in the Sentinel under the heading of “How I found
Christian Science”. `It was published in the March 14 2016 edition of the Sentinel.
You are right, there was a series of articles on this topic at the time. I hope this is
what you wanted.
I was catching up on some articles linked on SV that I hadn’t had a chance to read earlier. I read “Whale in a Pail,” an article for children, kindly shared by Cheryl on SV Jan 22, about waking up from being hypnotized or mesmerized by error. It made me think of a comment that I’ve been thinking about by Kay on SV Jan 16 in which she shares about watching a hypnotist’s act and realizing while watching from the audience that there is only One Mind, God good, not many minds and then the folks on stage who were hypnotized start waking up – amazing (thank you Kay). She said part of her thought was that, “there can be nothing to hypnotize or be hypnotized.” Very true and applicable in any seemingly discordant situation.
Thank you, dear Evan and all. Very much helpful thoughts to keep in mind.
My heart goes out to all in US or wherever weather is being an issue. The
extreme cold and other challenges can seem quite trying, but Love is with
us and what a blessing that is.