So true! We need to be alart not to malpractise ourselves. God has made us precious, pure and perfect, without spot or blemish , and we must remember this continually, and value and love God’s perfect work.
If there is no one condemning us, why do we condemn ourselves? Why do we malpractice on ourselves? If you think about it, it is ludicrous, stupid and ignorant, self destructive. We are reflections of a good God and only can do good. Thus the prayer that go out to detach the destructiveness of ISIS is doing its duty to removing from man it’s incredible evil.
I have come to the conclusion that we don’t “malpractice ourselves” if by that is meant that we are the source of the negative suggestions that “seem” to come to us as our own thoughts. I believe those are “suggestions” that come to us “as if” they are our own thoughts (i.e. they try to trick us into believing they are our own thoughts and therefore trick us into believing what they are suggesting is part of our identity).
Take a look at Matthew 4:1-11, the story of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. In verse 3 the text states “The TEMPTER came to him and said…” and in versus 5 and 8 the suggestions coming to Jesus are attributed to “the devil”. It doesn’t say Jesus is generating these suggestions…but that they are coming to him. It then appears to me that in verse 10 Jesus finally realizes these suggestions that are coming to him are not his own thoughts, but hypnotic suggestions tempting him to believe they are his own thoughts. And it is only then that he is able to put a stop to them by realizing that God alone is Mind and therefore there is no other Mind or source of our thinking except God…and his thoughts are entirely good.
As I stated in a comment I made to a previous blog, I find it so much easier to negate these suggestions that come to us as “our own” when I’m alert and recognize them as not my own. So in an effort to help others do the same, I wanted to again point out how important it is to not believe the negative suggestions that come to us are “our own thoughts”.
Thanks Evan. I appreciate your confirmation that I’m on the right track with the ideas I expressed in my comment. It kind of goes against conventional wisdom, eh?
Also, I wanted to point out a typo in the last sentence of my second paragraph…”his” should have been capitalized (i.e. …and His thoughts are entirely good).
Often when I start thinking about some topic in Christian Science I feel that God leads me to just the information I need…tenderly teaching me what I need to know. Over the weekend I happened to come across (in a most unusual way) an article from the June 1995 Christian Science Journal by Mark Swinney that provides additional information about the subject of this Blog entry. If you are subscribed to JSH online you can read the article by clicking on the URL below.
The title of this article just makes me LOL. The article itself makes it so clear that the suggestions that seem to come to us as our own thoughts have absolutely no power over us if we identify them as no part of our true consciousness and reject them.
Evan, you start us thinking. Then your wise readers follow with further enlightening thoughts. Thanks so much Brian, especially, for expanding and giving me more ‘meat’ to master thoughts I don’t want to have.
Hi Joan…Thanks for the kind words of appreciation. Today I noticed the “Silence the Accuser” title under Evan’s “Popular Posts” section, read it, and decided to post it here as additional “meat” it would all do us well to “digest” on this topic. Sorry for the puns… 😉
And if we are “ragging” on o-u-r-s-e-l-v-e-s?
(aka “self-condemnation” for our “imperfections.”)
STOP IT!!!
Let’s see only the truth of us. The rest is a lie.
;<))
So true! We need to be alart not to malpractise ourselves. God has made us precious, pure and perfect, without spot or blemish , and we must remember this continually, and value and love God’s perfect work.
If there is no one condemning us, why do we condemn ourselves? Why do we malpractice on ourselves? If you think about it, it is ludicrous, stupid and ignorant, self destructive. We are reflections of a good God and only can do good. Thus the prayer that go out to detach the destructiveness of ISIS is doing its duty to removing from man it’s incredible evil.
I have come to the conclusion that we don’t “malpractice ourselves” if by that is meant that we are the source of the negative suggestions that “seem” to come to us as our own thoughts. I believe those are “suggestions” that come to us “as if” they are our own thoughts (i.e. they try to trick us into believing they are our own thoughts and therefore trick us into believing what they are suggesting is part of our identity).
Take a look at Matthew 4:1-11, the story of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. In verse 3 the text states “The TEMPTER came to him and said…” and in versus 5 and 8 the suggestions coming to Jesus are attributed to “the devil”. It doesn’t say Jesus is generating these suggestions…but that they are coming to him. It then appears to me that in verse 10 Jesus finally realizes these suggestions that are coming to him are not his own thoughts, but hypnotic suggestions tempting him to believe they are his own thoughts. And it is only then that he is able to put a stop to them by realizing that God alone is Mind and therefore there is no other Mind or source of our thinking except God…and his thoughts are entirely good.
As I stated in a comment I made to a previous blog, I find it so much easier to negate these suggestions that come to us as “our own” when I’m alert and recognize them as not my own. So in an effort to help others do the same, I wanted to again point out how important it is to not believe the negative suggestions that come to us are “our own thoughts”.
Very good points Brian!!
Thanks Evan. I appreciate your confirmation that I’m on the right track with the ideas I expressed in my comment. It kind of goes against conventional wisdom, eh?
Also, I wanted to point out a typo in the last sentence of my second paragraph…”his” should have been capitalized (i.e. …and His thoughts are entirely good).
Often when I start thinking about some topic in Christian Science I feel that God leads me to just the information I need…tenderly teaching me what I need to know. Over the weekend I happened to come across (in a most unusual way) an article from the June 1995 Christian Science Journal by Mark Swinney that provides additional information about the subject of this Blog entry. If you are subscribed to JSH online you can read the article by clicking on the URL below.
http://journal.christianscience.com/issues/1995/4/113-4/wouldn-t-it-have-been-easier-just-to-push-him
The title of this article just makes me LOL. The article itself makes it so clear that the suggestions that seem to come to us as our own thoughts have absolutely no power over us if we identify them as no part of our true consciousness and reject them.
Evan, you start us thinking. Then your wise readers follow with further enlightening thoughts. Thanks so much Brian, especially, for expanding and giving me more ‘meat’ to master thoughts I don’t want to have.
Hi Joan…Thanks for the kind words of appreciation. Today I noticed the “Silence the Accuser” title under Evan’s “Popular Posts” section, read it, and decided to post it here as additional “meat” it would all do us well to “digest” on this topic. Sorry for the puns… 😉
http://spiritview.net/2013/04/silence-the-accuser.html
Very thoughtful – thank all of you.