Each of us has an unchanging, permanent relationship with God. God loves us, nurtures and cares for us, and supplies all that we need. The Bible says, “God is of purer eyes than to behold evil” (KJV, Heb 1:13). God is pure Spirit, divine Love, who is all intelligence, goodness, and perfection. God is ever-present and constant in our lives. In fact, God is our life. God is Life itself therefore Life is free, infinite, spontaneous, and not bogged down by worry and fear.
Generally, every evil suggestion that comes to our thought is a lie about our relationship with God. And being aware, or conscious, of this relationship naturally destroys the lie, which dissipates fear with peace and love and an assured sense of harmony.
When we feel our relationship with God, we can’t feel anything else. We only feel the love, peace, joy and dominion that God is imparting to us each moment.
Mary Baker Eddy describes God as Mother, and coined the phrase Father-Mother as describing God’s whole nature. She recognized God as Love and thus described God as representing Mother Love that we each know and feel in our hearts.
By constantly communing with this Mother Love in our heart and thoughts throughout the day, we are able to shield any evil suggestion or fear of limitation, ill-health, or lack.
Our relationship with God becomes the most important thing to us, which follows Jesus command “thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength” (Mark 12:30).
The Book of Deuteronomy has many references to this:
“love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway” (Deut 11:1).
“love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days” (Deut 30:20).
“I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it” (Deut 30:16).
This is really a protection and blessing to us. It keeps us safe because it guards our thought, our life, our motives, and the direction in which we walk. It in turn blesses everyone around us. “…All whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited” (Miscellany, Eddy, p. 210).
When we feel secure in our relationship with God we are kept safe, prosperous, fulfilled and satisfied. Our relationships are effortless and harmonious because we have all the happiness and completeness we need in God. Our bodies work more concordantly because we recognize God as Life and therefore the source and cause of our health. And when we are on the pathway with Him/Her we can never be sick or lack what we need. We have more fulfilling work because we are about our “Father’s business” (Luke 2:49) or our Mother’s business in this case – the business of loving and giving, of expressing our Mother Love. “…Freely ye have received, freely give” (Matt 10:8).
So let’s start each day with our relationship to God – with our Mother Love – and see how that blesses our day and everyone around us.
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