As a child of God, you have divine rights—rights to health, happiness and boundless opportunity to excel in life.
Are you claiming your rights? Do you exercise them abundantly?
Mary Baker Eddy reminds us, “Citizens of the world, accept the ‘glorious liberty of the children of God,’ and be free! This is your divine right” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 227).
If you see yourself as a “child of the world,” rather than as a “child of God, you might not feel free. You might feel imprisoned by the world, by the body, by other people’s actions and conditions. But this experience can be improved.
See yourself as a citizen of God’s world, rather a prisoner in mortal mind’s world. Live under God’s government and exercise your divine rights to health and happiness.
Accept the “glorious liberty of the children of God,” and enjoy the benefits.
Thank you so much for this. Just what I needed today. Sometimes just changing the way something Ive known for years is said, makes all the difference at that moment.
I’m a citizen of Gods world. The end!
Freedom is in thought. Nelson Mandela, imprisoned for his anti-apartheid action, used a poem that said he was the captain of his ship, to keep his mind clear of resentment.
Mrs. Eddy has shown us the source of all clear thinking to be God. God’s thoughts are true liberty and grace.
Everyday I claim my rights as God’s child, but we are currently touring Europe and the Baltic countries and the overall feeling is slightly depressing. So much of the lives in Berlin and now in Estonia are steeped in memories of war. In Tallin, Estonia, we were told the people are very serious and not trusting of anyone, what a way to live.
I look at the people and think for them, you are a child of God, feel joy and happiness knowing God loves you.
Dear Elaine, the Estonians sang their way to freedom from the Soviet Union. It’s a remarkable and wonderful country, and perhaps you’re just seeing something that isn’t there.~ I found the people who have experienced the worst oppressions, become the most joyous. Claim their freedom as we claim ours. In almost every evaluation of the world‘s countries’ level of happiness, the Baltic countries.- particularly Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, – – are considered the happiest countries in the world.
And we carry our happiness with us as we identify ourselves Love’s very being.
I hope you continue to have wonderful travels
Radiate Love
“Freedom from heredity” By Jeffrey Scott Johnson. From the August 8, 2024 issue of The Christian Science Monitor:
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/A-Christian-Science-Perspective/2024/0808/Freedom-from-heredity/?src=shared
Thank you very much for this inspiration today – so needed!
In the 1970’s I attended this wonderful lecture by George Louis Aghamalian, that speaks so powerfully to the subject of our divine rights:
https://www.cslectures.org/aghamalian/stand-up-for-your-rights-aghamalian.htm