What messages are we listening to?
The other day I received a text from someone I didn’t know referring to a purchase I didn’t make. A few hours later, I received another text from the same number that said the receipt for my purchase could be found at the link provided.
I figured this was a phishing expedition, and to confirm this I decided to go to the source – my bank – to see if someone might have access to my credit card. There were no unexpected transactions, so I confidently dismissed the texts as being fraudulent – false suggestions about what was really going on.
This made me think about how there’s a source we can turn to for trustworthy information that goes even deeper. For instance, if fearful thoughts are coming to us, instead of focusing on them we can look to God, the one real source of all reliable information about what’s good and true. Once we do that, we can be confident we’re listening to the right message. That’s because God, good, is Truth itself, and helps us to know our true nature as God’s always cared-for spiritual offspring.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, said in her “Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896,” “He who refuses to be influenced by any but the divine Mind, commits his way to God, and rises superior to suggestions from an evil source” (p. 113). Mrs. Eddy is referring to God here when she says “divine Mind.”
Every day there are suggestions that our lives are lacking in one way or another. That life is a zero-sum game where some win while others lose. That danger is lurking around every corner. That justice and equity don’t apply to everyone. But these are just false suggestions, counterfeits of divine Mind’s spiritual and harmonious creation that is present, right now.
Instead of getting taken in by these suggestions or ignoring them, we can take each thought to God to determine if the message we’re getting comes from our intelligent, divine Mind. If it is unlike God, all good, then we can wisely dismiss it as untrue. Instead, we can listen to the one true, spiritual source that’s been there all along, and that guides us in ways that help and heal.
Adapted from the Feb. 4, 2022, Christian Science Daily Lift podcast.
