Last night in watching a show I found that this mentality was trying to sway me in a big way through 'compassion'. But compassion that helps the wrong isn’t compassion it is pity, which is melancholy, which is wretchedness. Compassion without Divine Reason isn’t compassion at all, it is just following like sheep instead of the constructive Rule of “Feed my Sheep.” (Christ Jesus in John 21)
My love for God and His Idea, Man, makes me be even more compassionate. It is the compassion of a wise mother to not let her child go astray. It is the strength of conviction of a mother who says, ‘No’ when it would be so much easier to say, ‘oh, alright.’
God’s rules are in place for Man’s safety, not because God is proscriptive and cruel. It is said that, God’s ways are higher than our ways. His view and understanding is from the All-knowing Mind. He knows what promotes happiness, health, and it is always through purity and goodness.
Any form of activity that isn’t from God’s expression can never bring us to a higher source of Life, Happiness. The lower debase expressions of thought and deed are always led by the motivation of the ‘evil one’, which isn’t and can never be what leads us to our highest sense of Good.
Good is power. Good is purity. Good is what God is and is doing. Good is spiritual. Good is upright and freeing. When we follow, look to, express Good, we are blessed and brought up and out of the muddy thoughts of the ‘crowd mentality’, where all is confusion, chaos, and the works of the one evil. It is important to place our lives and activities on the highest sense of Good, so that we know and follow it up higher and higher every day. It leads us to the recognition that we are in the kingdom of heaven.
Evil, debase thinking and activity, leads us always downward. It sounds ‘good’, sometimes even wise, such as the serpent in the Garden of Eden, but it always ends up in despair. It always leads us into bondage, slavery to the senses, fettered by dis-ease, in a stranglehold of discomfort and sadness…melancholy.
"Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide."1
“Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil." 2
“Every step towards goodness is a departure from materiality, and is a tendency towards God, Spirit. Material theories partially paralyze this attraction towards infinite and eternal good by an opposite attraction towards the finite, temporary, and discordant.”3
“Happiness consists in being and in doing good; only what God gives, and what we give ourselves and others through His tenure, confers happiness: conscious worth satisfies the hungry heart, and nothing else can.”4
We must be strong in our understanding and faith in Goodness. It takes us forward to higher realms of thought and activity. It frees us from the bondage of evil. It brings to us triumph and peace. There will be a struggle between the ways of wrong and the ways of righteousness (supreme Goodness). But the battle is worth it.
Gentle hug
1 Psalms chapter 37 verses 27-31
2 I Peter chapter 3 verses 11, 12
3 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 213 lines 11-15
4 Message to the Mother Church, 1902 by Mary Baker Eddy page 17 lines 22-25
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