A comment came through and I thought I’d share my response with everyone. It develops a line of thinking out from the Bible, a fountain of living waters, so I have left all the quotes in place to enable you to follow the line back to the source.
“Thanks for your article on “DECIDE TO LET THE CHRIST MIND BE IN YOU.” We decide to take a stand but somehow still struggle thus: “for the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Romans 7:19. Now having made the decision to “decide to let the Christ Mind be in” one, how can one act consistently from the standpoint of the Christly Mind?”
©Cindy Clague
Mary Baker Eddy was one of the most productive and prolific workers of any age. She discovered the Science of divine Mind, how it worked and how to teach it to others. She healed, wrote, taught, formed organizations, magazines, a newspaper, a college, a church, and ran her own large household and affairs for decades, making multiple daily decisions that affected great numbers of people with ease. She wrote, “A great amount of time is consumed in talking nothing, doing nothing, and indecision as to what one should do. If one would be successful in the future, let him make the most of the present.”*
When you have the Mind of Christ, you don’t have to second guess yourself, to worry over whether you got it right or did enough or said something inappropriate to others. It enables you to accomplish more, and do it with freedom and joy. Leaving all comparisons and human hierarchies of value behind, the Mind of Christ gives focus and potency to each effort to help and bless others.
Every one of God’s creations is dear to Him. When we choose to live in continual relation to this Mind of God, we see our fellow men and women as God sees them–in His image, honest, kind, reliable, fruitful.
© John Clague
Heaven is God’s kingdom, the realm of the divine Mind. When God’s Mind speaks, it is done. This is the Mind that was also in Christ Jesus that we read about in the Bible. Jesus told us that heaven is within each of us. He didn’t speak of heaven as a future place but as something present now. The Bible assures us that we have this Mind of Christ now.* We all have it. It is ours and available at all times.
Our decision to let this Mind be in us as Jesus let it be in him, opens up an infinite availability of goodness.
To act from the standpoint of this Christly Mind, or awareness of our unbreakable relationship to God, is to have untold power for good. The human mind, thinking