Independent Christian Science articles

Obey The Great Physician

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I’ve been reading an article by Rosalie Stamp, called “Spiritual Consultations.” It mentions consultation with the great Physician. It says that, at times, we may wish that Jesus was here to help and heal. But it states that we should rather ask, what did Jesus call upon for his healing work? There are three things: he called on the same eternal Mind, the same invincible Truth, the same great liberating Love that is with us all right now.

We can always remember that our true great Physician always has a good diagnosis or verdict for us. His diagnosis is the perfection, the loveliness that strengthens spiritual selfhood, which we reflect.

I’m so grateful for this. It’s a reminder that God’s verdict is the reality, it is the truth, and it is what we all must always keep in our hearts, even though mortal mind insists on its lies and deceptions. I love Mrs. Eddy’s article “A Treatment for Every Day,” which can be found on our website under “articles.” I love where she says we must declare times without number, “I am perfect in God,” and to say often, “I am perfect, joyful, triumphant and complete.” This should be our only diagnosis and Verdict, because it is the Truth!

Faith in God Gives Peace

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I am so grateful for all that I’ve learned in Christian Science. One of the things I have been learning over the years is the importance of cultivating faith in God daily. It helps me to take a look at the challenges that come and use them as tests of my faith. To be truly free is to trust God completely. I learned that not to trust is not just about not trusting, but also means I am having more faith in evil and denying God. Looking at the lack of faith this way has helped me question what I am trusting when challenges come up. It has helped me to revere God’s power and presence more. It has freed me from the habit of looking at an error and judging its improvement as a measure of God’s work. It has also helped me to free myself from the fear of losing people, relationships, or things that I used to cherish. Now, I trust God with my all and know that, with Him, I cannot lose anything He wants for me. It has helped me be more grateful for how God is present, day and night, especially those early hours of the morning when nothing else seems to be near. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, page 228, “There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God.” This citation has helped me many a time to look to God alone and to trust Him wholeheartedly.

Immanuel “God With Us”

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I am so grateful to be in this church, because here I’ve learned the power of the word Immanuel, meaning “God with us.” I am so grateful for this word because, as I ponder it, it really makes perfect sense. If God is All, and I am His expression, reflection, or manifestation, then the absolute truth is that I am always in His presence!

I grew up learning about God. I knew God, but it was a far-away God. I would pray for His help, and it did come, but all the time I thought of God as being so far away. Isn’t it wonderful to learn that God is with us right here? Wherever we might be, and because of that, Science and Health, by Mary Baker Eddy, tells us on page 475 that “Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death.” On page 476 it says, “In divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable as divine Principle and idea.” How wonderful is that! It means that I must always know who I am in this relationship with our Father-Mother God, good. So in this presence of Love, I should also know there can’t be any pain, any sickness, any sorrow, or any lack, because in these, too, God, good, cannot exist in the same space with evil. I am so grateful for all that I’ve learned here, and what Christian Science has done in my life.

All Are Worthy of God’s Love

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I am so grateful to learn through Christian Science that I am worthy, and everyone else also, worthy of God’s Love as my birthright, and that this gives me the dominion to say no to my fears. Without this learning I remained easily mesmerized by any false suggestions that false sense threw my way. It is simply exhausting living in fear. To me that makes it illegitimate, and not a part of our birthright. I learned that even when my knees are shaking I must know that God is my ever present help and will never leave me. This brings some comfort. There are so many verses in the Bible to remind us such as, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.”(23rd Psalm)

I like what Mrs. Eddy writes in Retrospection and Introspection; page 61, “Science saith to fear, ‘You are the cause of all sickness; but you are a self-constituted falsity, — you are darkness, nothingness. You are without ‘hope, and without God in the world.’ You do not exist, and have no right to exist, for ‘perfect Love casteth out fear.’ God is everywhere. ‘There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard;’ and this voice is Truth that destroys error and Love that casteth out fear.”

I am so grateful for this learning because often it is the fear that we need to get rid of in order to live as our Father Mother wants us to as God’s children. I am so grateful to God, Christ Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, and all who are demonstrating this Science, to help awaken others to this Truth that makes man free.

Rely on Christ, It Has No Law Against Health

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Christian Science teaches that God has all power. How wonderful, how beautiful!

One evening I started feeling very warm. A lot had been going on, and by nighttime I felt very hot. A relative even commented on it. But I remember just lying down and turning unreservedly to God, to the Christ, which Science and Health tells us is “The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error.” (Science and Health, page 583)

All I was thinking was the truth that I have learned since coming to this church and since being introduced to Science, the truth about my inseparability from God. God that made me in His image and likeness, made all of us in His image and likeness. All that was going through my thoughts were these thoughts — the truth I have learned, the simple truth.

I fell asleep and when I awoke I was feeling a whole lot better. I was able to do that day what was mine to do. The point of turning to the Christ is very important. Even when we are led to call someone for help, we call on the Truth, the Christ, not person ever. It is the Truth that heals, and what they share with us is really the Christ, the Truth which we rely on. And in our being one with that Truth, God, the changes go on in our thinking, which makes the healing take place. I am so grateful for this because it really shows us that all power belongs to God. Nothing is above God, so whatever we’re going through, if we have made the Truth our own, we need not be afraid. Trust in God.

We look at the stories in the Bible of what has gone on, and in our own life, the truth that we have relied on. If those have become so natural to us, they naturally come to our thinking when we need them. I am grateful to God for Christ Jesus and how he healed, and Mary Baker Eddy and how she taught us all to heal, and also to bless others.

Freedom — Every Man’s Right!

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There is a video on the church website of a radio interview with a music historian, singer, and teacher named Joe Carter. He tells about the “spirituals” that the slaves would sing — and they became the foundation for Country, Jazz, and other forms of music. The slaves believed in the Supreme Deity, and the songs were really reaching out to God with a yearning to be free.

Today, it seems that all mankind, people everywhere, are in bondage of one sort or another — to illness, to depression, addiction, heredity, or many other forms of oppression. Mrs. Eddy speaks to this in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pages 224-228. She says that “men and women of all climes and races are still in bondage to material sense, ignorant how to obtain their freedom.” I love her reassurance that through faith in God, trust in Truth the strong deliverer, we too, through Christian Science, will know and acknowledge the God-given rights of man and be free, as she had done to help mankind. Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health, page 224, “Truth brings the elements of liberty. On its banner is the Soul-inspired motto, ‘Slavery is abolished.’ The power of God brings deliverance to the captive. No power can withstand divine Love. What is this supposed power, which opposes itself to God? Whence cometh it? What is it that binds man with iron shackles to sin, sickness, and death? Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free.”

Through the study of Christian Science, I found what God really means, and from that I found who I am and who everyone else is. I can’t be grateful enough for it because it has changed my life.

I am also very grateful for the “Models of Excellence” magazine that Lynda and Chardelle put together — the piece they did particularly on Martin Luther King. The part of it echoing his words, that the time for this freedom, the freedom that I’m sure Mrs. Eddy was talking about, will come, and I love the spiritual that speaks to this freedom. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “We will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men, white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last.”

I thank God, Christ Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, and thanks to all, who in their own special way are bringing their fellow man to the Christ’s way of living, and the greatest freedom of all, the freedom to do and be right!

Heaven Within Us All

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I’m so grateful to have learned that heaven is within us. It is what we are all seeking; peace, contentment, joy, good health, and love. It’s already within us. To think that this already exists within everyone, but only our habits of wrong thinking block our view from seeing what gracious gift of goodness God has already given all of us, is wonderful. The Bible tells us that in Matthew. For example, in Matthew 6, we learn that we cannot serve two masters, God and mammon at the same time. We need to choose and walk on that narrow way, stay in that secret place and let God’s love shelter us. We do not make heaven with our thinking, but how glorious it is that we can feel ourselves in heaven when we change our wrong thinking of selfishness, resentfulness, revengefulness and self-righteousness, which only block our view so that our view can be clear enough for us to see the heaven that we all seek and that it awaits us.

I cannot thank God enough for all the workers who have kept His truth going so that our brothers and sisters elsewhere, everywhere really, can also feel the same and have the same view awakened in them. I am so grateful for Christ Jesus’ example. He showed us how connected in one union he was with God all the time, everywhere he went. I thank Mrs. Eddy for allowing this, for being so pure in thought that this Truth for the world could come through her and bless us all. I am so grateful for those working currently and actually living this truth that our examples might bless others.

Trusting as a Child

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Having a pure, childlike trust in God is an imperative quality we must have, or cultivate in our journey Spiritward. If we trust God, we can be more confident in our reliance on Him. If we trust God, we can freely leave things in His hands, and know that He will only unfold what is good. If we trust Him, we will not be so shaken when we feel certain symptoms, when a medical verdict is given, or when things seem to be going wrong around us. If we trust God, our waiting on Him would be a lot easier.

I have found that we can have many years of just professing the truth without much trust in the power we declare while uttering the truth. We are advised to trust what we say. It’s no use just saying it. We can gradually gain this trust, or we can ask God, “Father, help me have more faith in You.” Saying the Lord’s Prayer, we do say, “Lead us not into temptation.”

All of these help us to trust God more, and we can rely on Him then. I often think of people who don’t even have hospitals to go to, or medicine to take. What do they do? Is that same God not with them? Maybe this is how they develop their trust in God.

I am so grateful for learning this on my way, how to just trust God. Trusting means I am glorifying Him and I am obeying the First Commandment, I am honoring Him as the all power over all, and All-inall. I’m so grateful for Christian Science, so grateful for all that I have learned here and am learning still.

Greater Love for All Mankind

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I’m so grateful to learn through Christian Science that the best way to love anyone, is not to see them as a mortal personality. I must say, over the years, this has not been easy, but it is a worthwhile practice. When I look at everything that comes to us that we are able to overcome, it is because of some understanding of our spirituality, our oneness with God, our true being as God’s image and likeness. That is how we are able to separate the lies of the negative suggestions we are bombarded with about ourselves and others, about places and circumstances that are far from what God knows.

Mrs. Eddy writes, “In some way, sooner or later, all must rise superior to materiality, and suffering is oft the divine agent in this elevation. ‘All things work together for good to them that love God,’ is the dictum of Scripture.” I don’t think I really paid attention to that before; but, the essence of this is so appropriate at this time.

It is wonderful to hear people say that we must all love each other and learn to love more. Jesus tells us to “love one another.” It is that daily practice of kindness toward one another. I have learned now that the most we can do is to try to pray for others with this understanding.

I’m so grateful that Mrs. Eddy never gives us instruction without telling us how to do it. I so much more appreciate the Scientific Statement of Being, that clearly tells us how we can love ourselves and love everybody else in the right way, uplifting everyone from this sense of material being and all the false beliefs that we can be subject to when we see ourselves incorrectly. It states, “Question. — What is the scientific statement of being? Answer. — There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.” (Science and Health, page 468.) I’m so grateful to Mary Baker Eddy for this, because this is really what helps us love our neighbor as ourselves. She gave this to us, so we can see ourselves correctly and love others the same way, the way God sees us. This is the perfect way of loving ourselves and the whole of mankind.

Follow the Light

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We’ve been shown the narrow way into obedience, understanding, and reliance on God alone; can we gain the complete trust which is very much needed in this journey?

Last week I had a dream; it was a very vivid dream. It seemed as though I was falling into a very dark abyss of very sharp, pointed objects. I looked up though, and I saw at an angle a cone shaped light. It was very, very bright. I kept saying, “I will follow the light, I will follow the light.” With that, I woke up.

I am so grateful for God and this bright light that He shines on our way when we decide to choose Him alone to guide us. I am so grateful that God was revealing at that moment, that nothing can affect my being as Her reflection and as Her child. I’m so grateful for everything I’m learning here, and I’m so grateful to hear others experiencing the same thing, that points us all to the Truth. I’m so grateful to God, Christ Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, and all the workers in the past and present.

Love is the liberator.