“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” Psalms
“I will…tear off your veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad.” Ezekiel
“To-day my soul can only sing and soar. An increasing sense of God’s love, omnipresence, and omnipotence enfolds me.” Mary Baker Eddy, My. 174
I was riveted by the part of the Bible verse above, “…with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad…”
Often, when feeling sad, we think it’s our fault, that we have done something wrong, allowed our thought to get under the wrong influence, or are just clueless as to why we’re feeling depressed. But in the statement above, “…made the heart of the righteous sad…” the Lord has affirmed that we have a heart that is in the right place—a righteous heart. This is encouraging! Our righteousness cannot be stolen from us. Our right-thinking, our spiritual perspective, our enlightened attitude, our joy, cannot be taken away by lies.
So, if you’re feeling a bit down, cast out the lies! You don’t have to labor under a lie. Your good comes from God and is permanently yours. Claim it vehemently today and rejoice in it!
Thanks so much, Evan, that’s an excellent reminder! Why do we allow ourselves to suffer by believing a lie about our health, supply, or a family/political/world situation?! ~ Robyn
Wish you would have a “printer friendly” button. I like to print this out and post them on the bulletin board at the Reading Room where I am Librarian. If Iprint the screen it comes out too small.
PN
This is particularly helpful today. Thank you for the beautiful reminder of Truth. Susan Crowe
Thanks Evan, this was very helpful reminder for me today.
To the Librarian,
I often save Evan’s writings by copy & Paste to Word. Then if I want to print it out I can do it from there.
Susan from UpNorth
Just wondering why the print is sometimes so very small like today and other times a more readable size? Thanks for the Copy and Paste idea, too. Thanks Evan for a wonderful idea on dealing with sadness. It’s never really OUR thought that’s telling us we’re sad is it? Just aggressive mental suggestions from the nothingness named error, mortal mind, brain, etc..
When reading items online, I often use keystrokes to adjust the print size. “Command +” makes the print bigger; “command -” makes it smaller, and “command 0” (zero) resets it to the default size. (You don’t have to worry about shifting to get the “plus sign”, but you do have to hold down both keys at once.)
Also, on my Firefox browser, under “View” you can click on “Zoom” to find these commands, as well as a setting to “zoom text only”.
I use a Mac computer. The same thing is probably available for PCs–in that case my husband says to try “Control” instead of “Command”. I hope this helps!
~Phyllis