With the onslaught of publicity and commotion about swine flu fears, aggressive measures being taken in schools and workplaces to prevent contagion, and daily reports of people suffering, reminders to spiritually defend thought from being influenced by prevalent concerns cannot be too frequent.

Keep your spiritual armor on!

A strong protection from swine flu is a spiritual understanding of your infallible health as a beloved and secure child of God. Your individuality as a child of God is wholly immune to swine flu. A spiritual idea of God can’t get it.

When aware of the swirling fears about catching the flu, I remember the story of the three Hebrew boys cast into the fiery furnace, recounted in the Old Testament. The flames were fierce and wild. But the boys were not touched. They walked through the fire and came out without a single hair singed.

While in the furnace, the King noticed a fourth figure with them, a presence commonly identified as the Christ. The boys obviously stayed in such a heightened spiritual state of mind, that their spiritual mindedness totally neutralized any effect from those flames. Their spiritual mindedness protected them.

The same rule works for us today. Spiritual mindedness neutralizes all the germs of fear, worry and concern swirling about us coming from other people, the media, doctors and the government. In a right state of mind, those germs do not affect us. They have no impact on our thought, our health, the body, our well being. They are as nothing. Just like Christ was with those boys in the heated flames, Christ is with us wherever we go. Christ protects us. Christ defends us. Christ knows what to do to keep us safe and well.

So, have no fear of the “flames” leaping up today in the form of flu fears. They are powerless. They are nothing to fear. They are as nothing to the spiritually inspired consciousness.

Keep your armor of protection on. Stay spiritually minded. Pray for your own safety and well being. Pray for your neighbor’s safety and well being.

In a right state of mind, we can walk out of this “furnace” of error without a single hair singed on our head–without a trace that anything happened in the first place.