Resist evil — error of every sort — and it will flee from you.
~ Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 406
If mortal mind comes knocking at the door of thought with suggestions of disease, fears to worry about, or reasons to feel anxious, resist them mightily with spiritual truth until they flee. They will.
There is no power from God backing up fear or disease. They are vanities of mortal mind that flee in the presence of Truth.
Stick with Truth. Side with Truth. Argue Truth’s position. Stand with Truth and Truth will stand with you.
When mortal mind sees there is no audience paying attention to its arguments, it stops talking. It gives up and leaves the premises.
As the apostle James writes, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). Resist evil of every sort, and live free of its influence. It’s a much happier way to live.
AMEN & AMEN. THANK U Evan
A victim does nothing.. by doing nothing he surrenders.
When we resist very thought unlike God, Truth will always be the victor..
A wonderful article to share: Resist, Insist, and Persist by Betty E. Thompson in the June 15, 1957 Sentinel to support what Evan has shared. Thank you for that very timely sharing today Evan.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1j7jd78dnuk?s=copylink
Here is the link from the Christian Science Sentinel. Thank you, Ellen.
Thank you, Shelly…so kind!
Thank you!
I rejoice in a way when I see evil or thoughts other than God come forth to be seen and dissolved. Sometimes on a national scale. No need to get sucked in. You cannot straighten that ‘snake’.
Thank you very much, dear Evan for today’s very needed SpiritView. Together with this week’s lesson on Spirit it encourages me to do my neccessary errands today with more neded divine energy.
God gives us what we need if we listen.♡
Evan states, “When mortal mind sees there is no audience paying attention to
its arguments, it stops talking. It gives up and leaves the premises.”
Sometimes mortal mind can seem very persistent in trying to make us
believe it is real and powerful. It screams and shouts for attention and
like a child having a temper tantrum, tries to take over our thoughts,,
in any way that it can.
Although sometimes not easy, we must resist any power apart from God
and stay with the Truth. Thank you Evan and all.
For the last few days, I have experienced pain in my hip and leg that kept me from my inheritance of freedom of mobility during the days and evenings. I resisted each fearful thought: hip replacement, compressed lower back disc, nerve ending disease, etc. As each fearful aggression tried to be real to me, I saw so clearly that is was SUGGESTION and not a reality I would have to live with; that the reality of my being is “fearfully and wonderfully made,” drawn with loving kindness (Jer 31:3) and created to be “very good.” (Gen:Chapter 1). Today as I read our Bible Lesson on Spirit, the power of the Spirit filled my consciousness so completely that I laughed out loud at all the pain stabs. They completely vanished. I could resist the lies and the lies could not resist the Truth and power of the Spirit. I am walking freely, no discomfort at all. Thank you Evan for such beautiful clarification of how to resist, and thank you dear SpiritView community for the great brotherhood/sisterhood shared so lovingly.
Dear Lori,
What a wonderful demonstration of God/Love’s divine power to overcome any
suggestion of immobility or of pain!! So beautiful your experience in resisting the
fearful thoughts that would try to keep you from the Truth of your being. Thank you
so very much for sharing that with us. It is a terrific inspiration of God’s power in
action and when we look through the spiritual lens, fear of any sort of issue can be
and is proven to be baseless and a non entity. Lovely!!! Big Hug to you!
Dear Lori…how beautiful to share your healing with you here today. The beauty of the fact is that to demonstrate a healing we must be making individual spiritual progress . Many years ago my Mother said that there aren’t 2 services in the church each week….it’s just 1. That is Sunday for learning about the principle of Love and Wednesday ( second part of 1) for the proof of that Love.
Love to all.B.x
Thank you, Evan, for today’s message about resisting evil. (And thank you, Ellen and Shelley for the article from 1957.) Here is another helpful article from the CS Sentinel, “Resist Evil with the Healing Truth,” by Ryan Vigil, February 2019.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1qs739flqm2?s=copylink
This is so helpful for me today Evan…thank you for your continual loving thoughts.
Also, wonderful articles, Ellen , Shelly and Cheryl . I’m so grateful for Spirit View .
Absolutely loved what you had to say today Evan. This is a keeper!
So many comments I would like to share. First, Uta mentioned divine energy. one of my favorites of MBE is this. Let us Feel the divine energy of Spirit bringing us into newness of life and recognizing no material power as able to destroy. Let us rejoice that we are subject to the divine powers that be. I say this multiple times a day.
Thank you all for contributing today, this is an inspirational day for sure.
Thank you só much Evan for starting this powerful conversation and for all you for continuing the powerful thread and yes, thank you Lori for sharing your lovely testimony!!! This is timely for sure!