Confidence

When we place our confidence in personal ability what happens when we fail something miserably? Or worse yet, what happens if we succeed and receive huge accolades and rewards? Confidence placed in our own abilities or others, is a “reed shaken in the water…provoking the Lord to anger”¹? Confidence in anything other than God, Mind, who is the perfect intelligence, is the farthest thing from wisdom.  Confidence cannot be based upon personal accomplishments, they come and go.  Our confidence has to come from a higher trust, from an infinite source of Well Being. Otherwise we are basing confidence upon ego, other people, or things that can be taken away or destroyed.  It is dicey at best when we have this type of confidence. Everything of this world can be shaken, lost, or let us down.

The true and only Ego is Mind, God. The perfect One isn’t persons, places, or things it is Divine Mind, the all-intelligence of all true Being.

We must learn how to turn to the precious source of all Good, God. Our peace and confidence through meekness, quietness, love, and wisdom, depends upon this All-knowing Mind. We gain dominion and power unlike anything else through His wisdom and intelligence. God never lets us down, never lets us go, and never leaves us.

We may start out by saying, “Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?”² But this is based upon unproven hope and a shaky trust.  What we need is trials and witnessing of His ever-present care.  This gains for us confidence that there is nothing impossible to God or His wisdom and perfect Being.

As we consistently and persistently turn to Love, Mind, God, we begin to feel that His ever-presence lifts us above everything. We begin to have a confidence that strengthens us in all His ways.  We begin to see that the first step to everything must begin, fully stride through, and finish with Mind, God. His strength and intelligence will guide us perfectly every time.  

Then we too will be able to say, “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”³

Confidence is spiritual it isn’t in nor from a mortal selfhood, place, or thing.  Confidence is spiritual power through the knowledge of who and what is doing all and is All-in-all.  Confidence through God, Mind, is peace and well-being. Confidence in the Highest Power is intelligence.  When we turn from the false sense of personal trust to the Divine we are placing our lives on firmer foundations. 

We can breathe easier knowing that God’s perfect ways are in control of our lives. We can never be ashamed of this perfect confidence in the Perfect Mind.

Be at peace by turning your whole thought and activity over to God.

“Place on the Lord reliance;
My heart, with courage wait;
His truth be thine affiance,
When faint and desolate:
His might thy heart shall strengthen,
His love thy joy increase;
Thy day shall mercy lengthen:
The Lord will give thee peace.”⁴

Gentle hug


1 The King James Version of the Holy Bible  I Kings 14 vs. 15
2 ibid Psalms 119 vss. 80-82
3 ibid I John 5 vss. 14, 15
4 Christian Science Hymnal No. 77 vs. 2

God's government...the Reign of Peace

God’s government is perfect.  God’s government is omnipotent.  God’s government is all-inclusive Love. God’s government is the outline and purpose of the perfect and only divine Mind.  Why does man think that there should be any other governing power or force?  Has this proven to be successful?

It is said, “unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever.  The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”¹

We are taught in Christian Science that “Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love. Man's rights are invaded when the divine order is interfered with, and the mental trespasser incurs the divine penalty due this crime.”²

When we place our reliance upon people, groups, entities, leaving God out of the government and out of our lives what we have is a reign of personal opinions and possibly a reign of terror.  But when we base our lives, our government, our countries upon the will of God and His perfect Law and Order we live in Peace.

Christ Jesus stated, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”3

What and where is this ‘kingdom of heaven’?  It is within us.  It is the reign and rule of God. It is the Love and Peace and governing force that is in all through the Christ. It is harmonious being without contention, opinion, selfish ambition.  It is the consciousness within each one of us that directs us towards all Good.  It is the childlike love, compassion, grace and kindness that we each were created to express. It is the ‘…the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme.’⁴

When we stop trying to do things our way, which is so much drivel of chaos, loss, and ignorance and start turning to the reign of the All-knowing, All-wise God we will have lives of harmonious being.  WE will be the people of God.  We will be at one with Him and at one with each other.  WE will have Peace.

What more could we want?  For the riches and tyranny of this world isn’t leading us into harmony further from it.  God is Love.  God is here.  God is ever available.  In the realization that what we all need and have, is God in our lives. We will be made better for it.

“Let us learn of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of Spirit, the kingdom of heaven,—the reign and rule of universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain forever unseen.”⁵

Gentle hug




1The King James Version of the Holy Bible Isaiah 9:6,7
2 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 106 lines 9-14
3The King James Version of the Holy Bible Matthew 5 vss. 17-19
4 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 590 lines 2-3 [Part of the definition of the “Kingdom of Heaven.”]
5 ibid page 208 line 20-24

Dearly Beloved, God justifies

The second verse of a favorite hymn states,
"Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed,
For I am thy God, I will still give thee aid;
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to
stand,
Upheld by My gracious, omnipotent hand;"1
Feeling unloveable, out of sync, lonely?  Have you ever loved someone that just didn't get you or thought badly of you unjustifiably?

Trying to find acceptance from people can be frustrating, hurtful, and pointless.  The Holy Bible states, "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?  It is God that jutstifieth.”2

The frustration of trying to justify ourselves can become a never ending battle.  This battle we can remove ourselves from by realizing that God knows us exactly as we are and He is very pleased.  In Proverbs it states, "I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;"3

God's love and regard for His creation is higher than we can even acknowledge and accept.  But when we realize that He it is that values us.  We should look to Him and not to people to gain our sense of peace.

God is Love, look to Him.
Gentle Hugs

1 Christian Science Hymnal No. 123 vs. 2
2 Romans 8:33
3 Proverbs 8:30