Today, more than at any time in history, the world is a place of incredible discovery and learning. Every week, we hear about new approaches to treating disease. Just think how much there is to learn about treatment and cure. You’ve maybe heard the saying, “The only things worth learning are the things you learn once you think you know it all.” It’s clear that we don’t know everything there is to know about anything!
In the last few years, one means of treatment that people are exploring more and more is in the area of the connection between health and thought. And people are making some significant discoveries! They are finding for themselves that their thoughts actually embrace their whole world. Previously, people believed that it was the world—the environment—in which we live that determined what we are. Yet, it turns out that it’s the other way around. What we think ourselves to be determines our world around us, including the state of our health.
Unlike human opinions, God is always present and doesn’t change. God is knowable. And your knowledge of God, even if it’s a brand new discovery to you, can help you heal both yourself and others.
Effective treatment starts, not with the opinions of either mortal man or the mortal senses, but with the perspective of God. These two quotes, one from the Bible and one from Mary Baker Eddy’s insightful book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, give the entire basis for these facts of being from God’s perspective:
“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Gen. 1:31).
“The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea, -- perfect God and perfect man, -- as the basis of thought and demonstration” (Science and Health, p. 259).
Through the lens of spiritual sense, it is in prayer that you can perceive that you and God are permanently beautiful and good. The true you is actually God’s self-expression. God’s goodness and perfection, and man’s concurrent expression of God’s goodness and perfection, are not, of course, creations of mankind’s religions. This state of things was already in place before a single stone or brick was placed on the ground for the purpose of building a church. What the Science of Christianity accomplishes for you and me is that it reveals in detail everything about true being. It gives us the tools and direction for understanding these facts of being and then applying them to thought and experience.
Effective prayer, then, uncovers the facts. Rather than exploring ideas about God’s status and our reflected goodness in the hopes that they will become facts, a better approach can be to think deeply and gratefully about the present goodness of perfect God and perfect man. This is not simply using the human mind to trick itself into believing that all is well. No, as the human mind becomes subordinate to the truth of how things exist, the power of God is brought to bear on your thought, and it determines everything in your experience. Then truly, as Jesus put it, this newfound understanding and knowledge of the truth makes you free.
In the last few years, one means of treatment that people are exploring more and more is in the area of the connection between health and thought. And people are making some significant discoveries! They are finding for themselves that their thoughts actually embrace their whole world. Previously, people believed that it was the world—the environment—in which we live that determined what we are. Yet, it turns out that it’s the other way around. What we think ourselves to be determines our world around us, including the state of our health.
Unlike human opinions, God is always present and doesn’t change. God is knowable. And your knowledge of God, even if it’s a brand new discovery to you, can help you heal both yourself and others.
Effective treatment starts, not with the opinions of either mortal man or the mortal senses, but with the perspective of God. These two quotes, one from the Bible and one from Mary Baker Eddy’s insightful book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, give the entire basis for these facts of being from God’s perspective:
“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Gen. 1:31).
“The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea, -- perfect God and perfect man, -- as the basis of thought and demonstration” (Science and Health, p. 259).
Through the lens of spiritual sense, it is in prayer that you can perceive that you and God are permanently beautiful and good. The true you is actually God’s self-expression. God’s goodness and perfection, and man’s concurrent expression of God’s goodness and perfection, are not, of course, creations of mankind’s religions. This state of things was already in place before a single stone or brick was placed on the ground for the purpose of building a church. What the Science of Christianity accomplishes for you and me is that it reveals in detail everything about true being. It gives us the tools and direction for understanding these facts of being and then applying them to thought and experience.
Effective prayer, then, uncovers the facts. Rather than exploring ideas about God’s status and our reflected goodness in the hopes that they will become facts, a better approach can be to think deeply and gratefully about the present goodness of perfect God and perfect man. This is not simply using the human mind to trick itself into believing that all is well. No, as the human mind becomes subordinate to the truth of how things exist, the power of God is brought to bear on your thought, and it determines everything in your experience. Then truly, as Jesus put it, this newfound understanding and knowledge of the truth makes you free.