Have you ever consented to disease? Accepted it for you or for someone else?
“Oh well, that’s life, people get sick, and it’s my turn now…” This is not a plan for staying healthy. We should never consent to something we don’t want to experience.
Today I was thinking about how diligent we must be to not agree with disease. The media is filled with reports of suffering, graphic pictures of it, descriptions and symptoms detailed to impress, and then there are neighbors who seem infatuated with talking about disease as if there’s little else to discuss. If we’re not alert, we might start agreeing with the general consensus that disease is real powerful and out to get us. Thanks to Truth, this is not true! But we have to prove it by keeping our thought free of its deleterious influence.
Don’t consent to disease!
No matter how many other people we see struggling with disease, we do not have to struggle with it too. We can help them and keep our thought free of believing in it.
Disease is in belief only. It’s not a physical reality that becomes contagious. Any contagion is in mind alone, and we have spiritual immunity to that mental contagion through Truth.
Our immunity is the spiritual truth about perfect God and perfect man. The man of God’s creating does not catch a disease. It’s impossible. God’s man is spiritual, immortal, healthy and well forever. The more we identify ourselves as spiritual, and not fallible vulnerable mortals, the stronger our defenses are against the suggestion of disease, and the safer our bodies from being affected by it.
There are probably many things you absolutely refuse to consent to. For example, I would never consent to smoking a cigarette. No matter how adamantly someone offered me a smoke, I would not accept. I absolutely refuse to have anything to do with even the suggestion.
We can apply the same rule to catching a disease. We can absolutely refuse to catch one by not consenting. Out of thought, out of body, is a rule any of us can demonstrate.
So, don’t consent! If you see disease in the news, down the block, at work, in your memory, don’t consent to its claims. Refuse to believe it’s real and know you are the immune and permanently healthy child of God.
Don’t give disease an inch, or it will become a ruler….
Consent to God’s absolute control over your well being, and stay healthy. Agreement with Truth makes a positive difference, and it’s a safe way to live.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The Voice
I’ve never read or seen the book “A Voice is Calling,” by J. G. Marking, but this excerpt from the book’s introduction is intriguing:
"There once was a man who lay in his bed and couldn't fall asleep at night. No matter what he did, or thought in his head, nothing seemed quite right. So as he thought and wondered what could possibly keep him awake, His heart stilled and his mind silenced and he felt a gentle quake.
I want more.
And as his eyes opened wide his soul began to breathe, A gentle whisper in his ear: "I know what I heard with those simple three words, But something's troubling me here. However obvious those words may seem, Their message isn't clearly defined. Because I know, deep down in my soul... The Voice that spoke wasn't mine."
"There once was a man who lay in his bed and couldn't fall asleep at night. No matter what he did, or thought in his head, nothing seemed quite right. So as he thought and wondered what could possibly keep him awake, His heart stilled and his mind silenced and he felt a gentle quake.
I want more.
And as his eyes opened wide his soul began to breathe, A gentle whisper in his ear: "I know what I heard with those simple three words, But something's troubling me here. However obvious those words may seem, Their message isn't clearly defined. Because I know, deep down in my soul... The Voice that spoke wasn't mine."
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Life is the hot cocoa
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests something to drink, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot cocoa and an assortment of cups--porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, and some exquisite--telling them to help themselves to hot chocolate.
After all the students had a cup of hot drink in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress."
"Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the chocolate. In most cases, it's just more expensive and in somecases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups...and then began eyeing each other's cups."
"Now consider this: Life is the hot cocoa, and the jobs, houses, cars, things, money and position in society are the cups. They are temporary tools we use to live by. The type of cup we have does not define nor change the quality of life we live.
"Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the cocoa God has provided us.
"God brews the cocoa, not the cups. Enjoy your hot chocolate!"
Offering his guests something to drink, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot cocoa and an assortment of cups--porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, and some exquisite--telling them to help themselves to hot chocolate.
After all the students had a cup of hot drink in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress."
"Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the chocolate. In most cases, it's just more expensive and in somecases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups...and then began eyeing each other's cups."
"Now consider this: Life is the hot cocoa, and the jobs, houses, cars, things, money and position in society are the cups. They are temporary tools we use to live by. The type of cup we have does not define nor change the quality of life we live.
"Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the cocoa God has provided us.
"God brews the cocoa, not the cups. Enjoy your hot chocolate!"
