This week’s Christian Science Bible lesson has a section on heredity. It explains that God’s preserving power is felt in understanding that we inherit only God’s goodness into our lives, and never disease, evil or mortal shortcomings.
I read the lesson real early in the morning before I did anything else, as I usually do, and before there was any stirring in the house. It truly was the beginning of my day. And I thought, “So, what did you inherit this morning that you are going to carry with you through the rest of the day?” And I asked, “Are you identifying only with God’s goodness, or are you inheriting in belief a bunch of problems from yesterday?”
Whoa…this was an eye opener to consider.
Every moment of our lives is a Spirit-moment. It’s not a matter-moment.
God is our Life, and God is good. We are spiritual beings living our eternal spiritual life now, and it’s overflowing with goodness, health, harmony and peace. As we identify ourselves correctly, we experience more and more of God’s goodness in every human activity and endeavor.
Consider your own position.
What did you claim as your inheritance this morning when you arose? Did you identify with a conflict you struggled with yesterday? Did you believe you had a health problem from time past? Did you accept that you lacked something important or significant? If so, you don’t have to, because you’ve never inherited anything less than good. Lack, illness, despair, fear, and their kin, are not yours to identify with or claim and they never have been. If you think they have been a part of you, then disinherit them pronto!
The errors of yesterday are not the truths of tomorrow. God made you spiritual and free of all evil throughout all time and eternity.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “In proportion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are freed from the belief of heredity, of mind in matter or animal magnetism; and we disarm sin of its imaginary power in proportion to our spiritual understanding of the status of immortal being.”
There’s the key to success, folks, understanding our “immortal being!” Our immortal being is fresh everyday. It’s new every moment. It’s clean, pure and disease free.
Now this is in inheritance I can get excited about claiming. And maybe you can too…
Just what I needed this morning, Evan. Thanks for the follow-up! 🙂
Thanks, Evan. I know that as a practitioner you know this about all of us as well as about yourself. I am so grateful, it really helps to remember the ongoing prayers of all Christian Scientists in sync with my own.
Thank you. A new view .
I’ve always thought of heredity being associated with unpleasant diseases and character traits. Never have I thought of it as “what am I carrying over from yesterday in my thinking today?” What a novel thought I look forward to pondering. Thank you for sharing this great inspiration!
Heredity.
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” Is 43:18-19 RSV
Better to behold than remember.
Thanks Evan. As someone who ‘inherited’ a lot of baggage, I love the idea we only inherit from Spirit which comes through from Paul in the Christian Scriptures (I don’t do the Bible Lesson anymore).
I had never thought of inheritance as’what I am carrying over from yesterday in my thinking today’ either. This new view of ‘inheriting’ is quite freeing and most welcome! Thank you!