It doesn’t matter what we think if we are thinking out from “self”. We are always in the wrong if we are living our lives as tyrants over others, pushing our opinions and agendas. God is All. What God knows, sees, does, and expresses is the Truth. This Truth lifts us above all personal sense of things into the higher knowledge of Good. Love looses us from the false pretenses of opinion, beliefs, and strongly held desires, to God’s unfoldment of eternal divine Right.
Job’s state of thought was, “I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.”2
This is all well and good if Job thought of himself as not self-righteous but as the supreme example, expression of God’s Good. Letting God humble him and purify his thoughts from judgmentalness to being meekly willing to let God’s judgments guide him.
We get ourselves into a lot of ‘trouble’ when we go headlong into a conversation or activity if it is based upon what we personally believe about the situation…we can really open up our mouth and insert foot (or pink slip, divorce, or heartache). How important it is to make sure that we humble ourselves first before life does it for us.
Christ Jesus reminds all mankind, “Judge not according to the appearances, but judge righteous judgment.”3 AND WARNS… “Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.”4
Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science states, In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, self-will, self-justification, and self-love, --which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death.5
Strong words against self-justification, “is the law of sin and death”!
Paul’s words could be turned into a self-analyzing question: “Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer (?)”
How can we tell between righteous judgment of God or self-righteous, self-justification? The Holy Bible states, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”6
The righteous judgment of God is the Law. It brings us out of our own undoing, the pits we create with our views and our mouths. But self-righteousness and self-justification brings us further down into the darkness of self-will and self-love. There is no law that justifies us if we are going from a point of view that we are all right and everyone around us is all wrong. A point of view that elevates our self-righteousness doesn’t bring us any good.
Humility is a beautiful thing. It brings with it pause, the kind of pause we all need so that we may wait on God. Humility brings with it progress. Self, all the self opinions that take us down a path of destruction in reputation, grace, meekness, brings with it embarrassment and having to turn ourselves around to go back to where God is leading us.
David sings in his Psalms, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”7
Let us go through today and always with a meek and understanding heart. God’s views are higher than our views. He will lead us not into the path of destruction but through the ways of understanding and goodness. Let us not be all puffed up in our own self beliefs, but meek, humble, loving, and safe from the carnal enmity that is against God.
Gentle hugs
1 Christian Science Hymnal No. 160 Poem by Mary Baker Eddy
2 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Job 34 vs. 5
3 ibid John 7 vs. 24
4 ibid Matthew 23 vs. 12
5 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 242 line 18
6 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Romans 8 vs. 7
7 ibid Psalms 1 vss. 1-6
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