Christian Science is easy to practice

Have you ever heard someone say, “Christian Science is hard to practice?” I have, and I’ve been pondering an appropriate response.

Recently, a friend commented, “It takes hard work to suffer!” What he meant was it takes a huge effort to carry around burdensome beliefs that cause suffering.

Take resentment, as an example.

Have you ever carried around a grudge or complaint against someone for several hours, or several days, even years? Was it easy? Was it easy to complain and resent? Not likely. Usually, it’s quite a burden, a real downer on joy, peace of mind and feeling love. Carrying around resentment is super hard work.

Now, take the opposite state of thought.

Have you ever been filled with love and joy for a few hours, or days? How does it feel? Does it weigh you down or lift you up?

For me, I feel buoyant and inspired when holding to thoughts that produce love and joy. It’s not hard work at all to dwell in Love. It’s very easy, and health producing too.

Christian Science is all about thinking in harmony with divine Love. A consciousness filled with love and truth is a Christian Science consciousness. Anger, ill-will, complaint, ingratitude, fear and their kin, is not Christian Science or anything close. Carrying around evil thoughts is hard work.

Take another approach.

Christian Science is the law of God. CS explains how God governs the universe, how things operate under the government of divine Mind, and our place in the overall activity. These laws are not subjective human opinions, but divine reality.
When we live in harmony with divine law, life proceeds in an orderly fashion. Like a mathematician applying the laws of math. When the accountant adds according to the law of addition, he calculates right answers and gets his work done efficiently. If he deviates from the rule and tries some other approach, he errs and his work is unreliable. It’s not hard work to calculate correctly. The work gets hard when the rules are not applied properly.

The demands of Christian Science require its students to leave all for Christ, or Truth, in order to ascend the metaphysical ladder of spiritual understanding. To leave all for Christ is to let go of material mindedness, selfishness, matter-worship, ego-worship, avid pursuit of things and fame, and any love of mortality. Mortal mind may rebel at these demands and declare, “This is tough!” But Christian Science is not what is tough. It’s mortal mind’s resistance to Truth that makes human life tough.

To the hardened liar, the demand to be honest may sound like “hard work.” But it’s not tough at all to be honest. It’s much more difficult to lie and deal with the penalties and guilty conscience that accompany the evil then to be honest. The liar simply hasn’t figured this out yet.

It’s easy to practice Christian Science. It’s easy to love. It’s easy to live a life of integrity. It’s enjoyable and freedom-giving to live in harmony with God’s laws.

And the same rule applies to handling sickness and disease. It’s very tough to hold beliefs of sickness in thought as realities. It’s downright miserable, actually. It’s much easier to release them and whole-heartedly embrace eternal health and well being as the reality. When praying for relief from physical suffering, it’s not the knowing of Truth that is hard. It’s the letting go of the false belief that produces the suffering that seems hard to the human mind. And that resistance is mortal mind objecting to Truth.

Child-like faith, trust and faith, accompanied with large doses of humility, help conquer the ego and pride of mortal mind that holds on to suffering beliefs.

God is good. God is All. God is omnipresent Love. These are the realities and the eternal facts of being. The sooner we happily admit these truths, the sooner we feel in harmony with God’s laws, and the sooner the burdens lift.

Christian Science is easy to practice when seen in a correct light.