I was filling my truck up with gas the other day and watched with dismay as the cost of the gas I was pumping whizzed up to astronomical heights! “Whoa, gas is super expensive these days,” I started to complain within.
Rather than let my thought spiral into a negative place, I sought a metaphysical view to dissolve my fears and concerns about how expensive gas has become. I prayed about it.
I thought, “Gasoline may be expensive, but the real fuel I need to keep going doesn’t come from a Petrol company. It comes from divine Mind!”
Spiritual fuel is what keeps me moving ahead with all important activities in my life. Spiritual fuel is what I needed most of all.
So, I started to “Fuel up with God!”
I thought about what form spiritual fuel comes to us. It’s not gas out of a hose. It’s inspirational ideas coming from divine Mind. Creative, intelligent, wise ideas that tell us how to conduct our human affairs in ways that bring good results. I could count on inspired ideas coming from God to manage my transportation needs in ways that enabled me to get where I needed to be, and to have the funds I needed to do it no matter what the price of gas happened to be.
I quit fretting about the price of gas and concentrated on staying fueled up with spiritual inspiration. It has been a much more peaceful way to live!
Have no fear of the price of gas. Fuel up on spiritual truth and keep moving!
Yes. Thank you for this Evan.
We live in God’s spiritual realm of abundance and constant supply. Mrs Eddy said we should never let a sense of lack stay with us as it is error, and it has surely never been more important to follow her words than now.
There are so many scare stories around now about all sorts of scarcity and high prices, but ‘Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need’.
Merci infiniment pour ce sujet qui nous concerne tous à travers le monde . What a relief to be able to change our perspective of thinking . Yes Let’s see God pouring over us Abundance , love and all we need .
We are so rich of God’s qualities how can we feel lack of anything ? No !!!
Wonder—full, thank you, Evan and Izzy.
Very helpful example of this:
https://journal.christianscience.com/issues/1982/4/100-4/fill-the-empty-vessels
Dear Diane, regrettably can’t read the whole article.♡
Thank you so much Evan…I really have to work on the…not worrying aspect as well too…
God is good and God is ALL..
Diane, could you possibly share this article? Much appreciated!
Thank you all for your thoughts
Here is another link so you can read the article Diane shared;
Fill the empty vessels
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/2q7ud57gz4u?s=e
Thank you so much for a wonderfully inspired view of this situation. Turning our gaze in the right direction…
Excellent idea to pray while filling up our tank instead of worrying about lack, shortages, the economy, inflation etc.
Our “God tank” is always full!
https://journal.christianscience.com/issues/1983/6/101-6/filled-up-full.-besides-being-the-title
An article telling about using the
message from the children’s book,
Filled Up Full, sold in the Reading
Room.
Oh dear M, cannot open this either. Could you please make this readable in whole? Thanks!
Here’s the shared link:
“Filled Up Full.” Besides being the title…
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/2q5d1dnyjdq?s
Here’s a link everyone can access.
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/2pkt14lpnve?s=e
Thank you Evan for taking a 180degree pivot and declaring the abundance of Truth that is always there for us. In this week’s Bible Lesson Jesus demonstrated abundance with the feeding of the 4,000 plus women and children with only a few fish and some bread and yet it was enough for all. We can all economize and have enough for all that is necessary. Love reading Spiritview every day!
Thank you Evan & Ellen. This made me think of a quote I wrote down (sorry, I didn’t write down the author): “Jesus couldn’t make substance out of nothing. The substance had to have been there first (the loaves and fishes). Then he was able to perceive it. And then others were. That’s Christian Science healing. The substance is already established. It’s just the need to recognize it – not try to create it.”
Hi J. That quote is from this article:
NO LIMITS IN LIMITLESS MIND
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/krxriiiedm?s=e
Amazing…many thanks RH! 🙂
Thank you, Evan, for reminding us that our mindsets on rising concerns that barrage our thoughts is important to monitor. God is here with us thru our temptation to relapse into frustration, anger and distancing from our source. I will work on “fueling up” in a new light.
Very good advice, Evan – practical and fruitful for us all. Thank you.
And many thanks to all commenters and all the wonderful articles shared.
Although it is not about gas, (or petrol) for our cars, there is an article in the Sentinel by Lois Degler
in November 18th, 2013 which is about lack of water, but has the same message for us. There is
no lack of anything we need, for supply is spiritual not material, and unlimited. God knows our needs and has already supplied them before we ask him. Here is
a need that was met by spiritual means:-
“Another story about a well comes from the biography Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, by Yvonne Caché von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck. One day the farmer who delivered milk to Mrs. Eddy’s home, Pleasant View, reported that since they’d had no rain for about a month, his well was empty. When told about this, Mrs. Eddy said, “Oh! if he only knew, Love fills that well.” The next day when the farmer came, he told the cook that his well was full of water. He was amazed because there had been no rain to fill it” (p. 177).
Love fills our petrol tanks with as much as we need whenever we need it. It is
not beyond our means, and it never run out. Like all the other stories we read
in the Bible of supply, we can trust in God to keep us fullu supplied at all times
thank you very much, Maggie for your inspired comment! Yes it is wonderful, I also read about the gorgeous demonstration by Mrs. Eddy with the empty well of water – wonderful indeed! 🙂
“Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need”. MBE
There are things I desired but the thought comes “What do I really need?”
One way to meet my needs has been to install electrical charging systems for EV cars.
Fuel is always in the garage. It’s a whole new concept and bares our attention. Many electrical utilities give lower rates for EV charging outlets. Cars can go many miles on a charge. Newer batteries will enable even more in the near future. EV trucks are now available, too.
I still drive older vehicles, but am able to keep them fueled as required.
The world is changing. Advancing thought governs the future of all material things.
Sometimes I think how much better it must have been in Mrs. Eddy’s time. How very pristine it must have been growing up on a 500 acre farm in Bow, New Hampshire. Horse and buggy days in the eighteenth century. Burning pine knots for fun. Long walks and loving farm animals back to health. Clean air!
If you seek the history of Christian Science find and read the books by “Sir Robert Peel”.
He does as very few have ever done by writing three volumes of “The Life of Mary Baker Eddy”.
Years of Discovery, Years of Trial, and Years of Authority. In essential detail a man with education in four universities and being a professor at Harvard, he brings you into her experiences so very well done.
Worth mentioning is the industrial revolution. The “Iron Horse” (train) and communications via “telegraph” ,”telephone” and the USPS, brought the country together for sharing and distribution of our religion.
What ever fuel we need will become available when we need it. Hay burners did not pollute!
Used to be, a wealthy man had a car and a poorer man had a horse. Now it’s just the opposite!
Will we return to yesteryear? Or steadily continue to get more dependent on conveniences?
People still live in the jungles and thrive on simple life styles. It’s all a matter of thought.
God provides….
Thank You for this precious forum. “All thing work together for good for them who love God”
Dear David, so good to see you here again, commenting on SpiritView. I for one have missed your contributions and have hoped to hear your wisdom again. Grateful.
Evan, thank you for sharing your thought/prayer process with us. I loved picturing you at the gas pump, getting annoyed, then catching and reversing thought before it went too far astray. You regained/retained your God-given Joy and Trust, remembering our true fuel and from whence it endlessly flows.
So nice to see the sharing of articles and the research done and the wonderful comments. Expressions of Love. I appreciate you all!
Izzy, in your comment at the beginning you juxtaposed the words “scare” and “scarcity.” That gave me a smile and something new to ponder. Fear and lack, so related, but overcome by Love and trust. Thank you, Evan and all.
Thank you David for your most thought provoking commentary, and to all of you who contribute pertinent articles that illuminate and expand on Evan’s ever timely posts.
I agree with you David, this forum is precious!
Canadian oil is an answer! America’s northern neighbor has an abundance. And it’s cleaner with less of a carbon footprint. OPEC isn’t the only producer of oil. America should shop with a friendly neighbor to the north!
I found this just this morning. After reading SpiritView and commenting.
Thank you Canadian neighbors for providing a solution and so nearby!
“What I most need is growth in grace expressed in patience, meekness, love, (gratitude) and good deeds.” Not an exact quote from MBE, and I
always add gratitude.
Wow this weekend we have so much spiritually inspired food – thank you all dear commenters!
Thank you dear Evan – I am very very grateful for your always inspiring and healing SpiritView blog!
Thank you all so much, who posted a link to articles matching to Evan`s today`s SpiritView!
The rising gas prices are the same here in Germany. For a very short time our government let the prices drop and then I filled my car up with fuel.
My thoughts about rising above lack of money because of the high gas prices were that I need my car mainly for driving to church, yes of course for shopping too. God supplies me with what I need to serve Him.
This week`s lesson sermon is so wonderfully filled with God`s abundant supply in everything we need. And Mary Baker Eddy assures us in Science and Health that “divine Love has always met and will meet every human need.”
Thank you Evan that you translate human need into spiritual supply of ideas that come from God and which give us what we really need.
I had a wonderful experience of love this Afternoon. When I intended to make a nab after lunch I could not come to rest and got up to go for a walk instead. I am sure God pushed me to do so. When I came to my car standing on the street, I noticed that one tyre was totally flat. I called for a mechanic to see to the tyre and he did. He said it will cost 30 Euro to find the hole and fix it. I asked to pay only 20 Euro and he smiled kindly and said “okay”. Then after 1/2 an hour he found a tiny glas splinter in the tyre which caused the flat tyre. He repaired the hole perfectly. And as I was very very grateful for God`s guidance (while I stood there and waited, I prayed that there is only one Mind, God in control) and for the patient and very good work of the mechanic, I gave him the 30 Euro he actually wanted. This good deed on both sides is the rich fuel of Love, God supplies us with abundantly!
Yes, Evan, after that I wasn`t anymore tired and sat in my garden fueled up with gratitude and love to our good God and this lovely mechanic who expressed much kindness !
What Lori wrote and Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health is very much needed!! And I am working and praying on it! Thanks you mentioned it Lori!
Lots of Love and a wonderful and blessed weekend to a l l ! 🙂
Maybe Electric next time Evan?
Yes, wonderful idea, Richard! Would want that, too!
That is beautiful demonstration. I like that Thank you Evan.