Are you aware of all the divine benefits coming your way today?
Workers for companies are very aware of what benefits they are entitled to as employees. Vacation time, contributions to their retirement accounts, health insurance, and more., are usually top of their mind when making plans.
Financial benefits are one thing. But what about spiritual benefits? The best benefits of all. Every child of God is entitled to them. Are you claiming them?
The Psalmist reminds us, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits (Ps. 103:2). He’s talking about the benefits of being a child of God. They are rich and overflowing!
God loves you beyond anything the human mind can imagine. In this divine Love we find everything we need to live our eternal Life fully and abundantly.
Wisdom, insight, understanding, creativity, ingenuity, confidence, authority, intelligence, compassion, forgiveness, patience, love, and many more heavenly assets, are freely ours to receive and put into practice.
The benefits of being a child of God are HUGE!!!
To receive these benefits, be wise to not see yourself as a poor impoverished mortal. That’s not what God sees. God sees an enriched, blessed, fully provided for immortal.
See what God sees! And the benefits that rightfully belong to you appear before your eyes.
“God’s benefits” by Judith Hardy Olson. From the May 24, 2021 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/2021/5/123-21/god-s-benefits
**I’m sorry, but I don’t have a shareable copy to attach so this article may not open for all. Maybe someone would be interested in attaching a shareable copy…
this should work
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1qlgn8dmozq?s=copylink
Thanks J and Sally. I always love her articles. They are always so easy to understand. L X
Thank you Sally!
When we work for a company there may be times when we feel that the benefits offered are insufficient. We may need to negotiate for improvements in wages, working conditions, etc. But I see that the benefits of recognizing ourselves as the beloved children of our bountiful God are overflowing with good, they are unlimited, we are lacking no good thing. I have to catch myself and turn upward when I start to see myself as an “impoverished mortal.” Thank you Evan.
Also quick question. This week’s bible lesson is Probation after Death. I haven’t found a good definition of ‘Probation,’ as it would apply here, to help me understand the lesson better. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
Hi Rose. There’s a lot in the lesson about steps so I see it as progressive steps. L. X
Hi Rose! Thank you for the thoughtful question. Webster’s 1828 has this:
any proceeding designed to ascertain truth
That matches my understanding of what Mrs. Eddy meant. In other words, after what seems like death to a material perspective, we find ourselves still alive and our purpose continues to be to understand truth… just like before a belief of death. Jesus, for example, continued to appear humanly after his resurrection which I assume means he still was working to ascertain absolute truth. I know others may believe Jesus was at the point of absolute truth from the start but it sure seems to me he was “working out the problem of being” to show us how to do it too.
Please understand I’m learning more every day and I may have a different answer tomorrow, LOL.
Here are a few citations I found when searching for the word “probation” in the writings of Mrs. Eddy that may be helpful.
“In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.” So we read in Ecclesiastes. This text has been transformed into the popular proverb, “As the tree falls, so it must lie.” As man falleth asleep, so shall he awake. As death findeth mortal man, so shall he be after death, until probation and growth shall effect the needed change.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 291:19–25 (to 1st .))
Man’s probation after death is the necessity of his immortality; for good dies not and evil is self-destructive, therefore evil must be mortal and self-destroyed. If man should not progress after death, but should remain in error, he would be inevitably self-annihilated. Those upon whom “the second death hath no power” are those who progress here and hereafter out of evil, their mortal element, and into good that is immortal; thus laying off the material beliefs that war against Spirit, and putting on the spiritual elements in divine Science.
(Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 2:21)
Dear Rose
I so agree with both Linda and Robert H.
We are continually progressing as individuals toward the understanding that Life is God. At this time I’m more of a Jacob than an Enoch but Jesus’ and MBE teaching encourages and guides us to make progress and understand the spiritual life we can experience and actually do have right now.
Thank you Evan for reminding us of all the wonderful , tangible, benefits we have. We are all indeed the loved of Love. B.x
Thank you very much Linda, RobertH and Barbara for taking the time to help me understand Probation in this week’s lesson. I have read and will re-read your answers. What I am getting so far is that whether before or after so-called “death” we just go on learning and growing in our understanding of the Allness of God and us as His own likeness.
These thoughts and comments are so helpful in seeing ourselves with everything
we need. Thank you!! Evan declares, ” The benefits of being a child of God are
HUGE … and … God loves you [us] beyond anything the human mind can imagine.
In this divine Love we find everything we need to live our eternal Life fully and
abundantly”. What a lovely and comforting thought. The gentleness and
compassion that God/Love has for us is so wonderful in spiritual blessings.
I couldn’t help thinking about this citation from S&H when reading Evan’s blog today (I inserted [benefits] which is not in S&H):
Knowing that Soul and its attributes [benefits] were forever manifested through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 210:11–16)
Thanks J for the article you shared about the importance of claiming our God given benefits/attributes and demonstrating them in our daily experience!
Here’s another article I thought does a great job of bringing out the benefits/attributes we have as manifestations of God and the importance of demonstrating them:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/18yj7hf5fmc?s=e
I am very very grateful for this comforting and healing SpiritView Blog, Evan is blessing us with, every day!
I always have problem with the saying, mainly of two of my kind neighbors, “make it good” after we say bye bye. I always feel a bit guilty for something.
However now, when I was reading the wonderful article you give us up her, RobertH about all the perfect qualities, we possess and express as God’s loved child, I was deeply grateful, that I felt freed in a certain manner. I’m very grateful for the divine truth we learn in Christian Science and which makes us free, as Jesus said! And thank you very much, J for the article by Judith Hardy Olsen. I will listen to it later.
This articles are very worth reading and so very helpful!♡
It’s so interesting to read all the comments about the meaning of “probation” relaxed to this weeks lesson sermon! Thank you all very much!
Thank you dear Evan for today’s SpiritView.
Yes, I am very very grateful for God’s great benefit, teaching me through the Christ and Mrs. Eddy the wonderful spiritual laws of Christian Science Healing!♡
SpiritView is my go-to every morning (along with the Daily Lift and of course our BL’s) and so often meets whatever needed for that day. I am profoundly grateful for all the sharings and especially the articles mentioned, most helpful in understanding more this weeks BL. Thank you Evan for your clear insight and providing such inspiration and a place for wonderful sharing of ideas, it is greatly appreciated.