Have you ever seen a cat all settled calm maybe
even purring one minute and then puffed up with back arched the next time you
see him? What is his natural state of being? Calm, happy, purring or puffed up,
afraid, angry?
As the children of God what is our natural state
of being? As God is Good, loving, tender, merciful, isn’t that our natural
state of being as well? So what is the resentful, angry, hostility that comes
to try to mar our natural, calm state? Aren’t they temptations of the hater,
tempter, destructive and destructible evil?
So when these temptations of being angry and
resentful come to us can we not take a stand for our true calm, happy nature?
Doesn’t God not only create man in His perfect calm image but also reveals to
us how He is protecting us from the temptations?
David sings his precious Psalm, “He maketh the
storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because
they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. Oh that men would
praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children
of men.”1
Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of
Christian Science, states, “The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the
manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen
human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald
imposition, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the
scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God’s spiritual, perfect man.”2
Our calm joyful nature is ours. We get to be this
perfect image and likeness of what God is and is doing. We get to take a stand
against the false character and rejoice in our dominion. When one stays in
their true nature it is easier to stay above the temptations. But when we fall
for those temptations we can feel lost in the waves of turmoil and the sea of
emotions.
Let us be free and calm instead of captives to
anger and resentment. Let us be buoyed by God’s divine nature and the truth of
our being, His perfect reflection. Let us stay safe in His tender truths and
not be reactionary to the false claims that there is something or someone who
can disturb us from our true calm nature. Let us see that by being our true
selves, Love’s children, the calm, loving, ideas of God, we are free.
Let us be cool cats and stay calm. Let us rejoice that our nature is God's nature, loving, tender, calm. Purrrrfect.
Gentle hugs
1 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Psalms
107 vss. 29-31
2 Science and Health with Keky to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy page 99 lines 23-29
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