Total Freedom from Fear

Iremember growing up in a community with many religions. For me it was a great experience, and of great help in seeking Truth. My mother, being a long time and faithful member of the Methodist Church, did the best she knew how to train all her children in the love for God, and she inspired me with the great need and desire to seek the truth about God and man. In Genesis, I read that God created man in His image and after His likeness, and blessed him. God also gave him dominion over all the earth.

Later, fear came, as I was taught in all the churches I’ve been to that the image and likeness of God, and the dominion He gave to man, were lost in the Garden of Eden, where Adam disobeyed God and man was cursed by God to work the ground, and sooner or later go back to the dust, because he was made of dust. All the teaching I had in those days was a terror to me, because it was totally different from my hope.

So, when I became independent from my parents on certain issues, I told them that I was no longer comfortable with this Methodist system of worship, creed, doctrine, and teaching, that God and heaven are somewhere in the sky, and that man is separated from God, and that good and evil come from God. The Scriptures lost their spiritual and significant meaning.

I was confused and burdened with all these things until Christian Science came into my life. Then, all that seemed hidden to me was brought to light. I began to study the great truth about God, man, and all that really exists, as taught in Plainfield Church. This brought to me total freedom from fear, and opened the way for the great light of Truth to shine in my life. Then peace and love began to radiate within my heart. The fear that God can send good and evil was annulled with the great truth that God is only good, and loves man, and that nothing unlike good can come from God. The fear that man is separated from God, and made from dust and destined to go back to dust, was destroyed by the great truth that God and man are one, and inseparable in being, and that man is never material, but spiritual and immortal, destined only for immortality and eternity. Christian Science helped me to know that God made man perfect and harmonious; that God is the Life of man; and that man has no life apart from God; therefore, man is incapable of suffering, decay, or dying, but eternally reflects God, Life.

This spiritual understanding about God, man, and everything around me, came as soon as I began to study Christian Science a few years ago with the Plainfield Christian Science Church, Independent. This spiritual understanding makes man perfect and harmonious, and frees him from all fear, sin, sickness, and death. Then, God and heaven are no more somewhere in the sky, but are man’s true dwelling place with his Father-Mother God. Mrs. Eddy writes: “Heaven. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul.” (S&H) Heaven was never a material dwelling-place that existed somewhere in the sky, but rather in man’s consciousness.

You will find heaven in proportion to your understanding of your unity and oneness with Spirit, God. This understanding is very important, and available to all of us here, now, and forever. Our homes, offices, communities and nations become the atmosphere of Soul, in proportion to our understanding of God and man as one, inseparable in being.

This great fact of being was hidden to me, as it seems hidden to many people today, until I found Christian Science through the Plainfield Christian Science Church, Independent. I was consistent in seeking the Truth as Jesus said: “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” He also said: “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” This great truth of our Master unfolded to me as I began to study Christian Science. It is even clearer since I arrived here in Plainfield Church. Now I have found true freedom, peace, and happiness. Mrs. Eddy writes: “Love and Truth make free, but evil and error lead into captivity.”(S&H)

Perhaps you are one of those people who are still living under the captivity of the physical senses and theological error that brings confusion and fear. Now is your opportunity to have total freedom. I leave you with these inspiring statements from our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy: “When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal.” (S&H)