Oct 18th, 2023

From The Bible

Topic: When things spin out of control, think as God thinks

For since the beginning of the worldmenhave not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,whathe hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
(Isaiah 64:4)

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
(Proverbs 16:3)

O LORD, how great are thy works!andthy thoughts are very deep.
(Psalms 92:5)

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!IfI should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
(Psalms 139:17, 18)

I hatevainthoughts: but thy law do I love.
(Psalms 119:113)

¶ For my thoughtsarenot your thoughts, neitherareyour ways my ways, saith the LORD. Forasthe heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosperinthethingwhereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall claptheirhands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting signthatshall not be cut off.
(Isaiah 55:8–13)

The king answered and said to Daniel, whose namewasBelteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wisemen,the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. ...
(Daniel 2:26–28 (to .))

For the word of Godisquick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, andisa discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
(Hebrews 4:12)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(John 1:1)

¶ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shavedhimself,and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, andthereisnone that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee,thatthou canst understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying,Itisnot in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. ...

... ¶ And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaohisone: God hath shewed Pharaoh what heisabout to do. ...

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; ...

Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. ...

And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we findsuchaoneas thisis,a man in whom the spirit of Godis?And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this,thereisnone so discreet and wise as thouart:Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. ...

And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; ...

... ¶ And Josephwasthirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
(Genesis 41:14–16, 25, 29, 30 (to 2nd ;), 33, 38–40, 42, 46)

For to be carnally mindedisdeath; but to be spiritually mindedislife and peace. Because the carnal mindisenmity against God: ...
(Romans 8:6, 7 (to :))

For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man whatishis thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts,ishis name.
(Amos 4:13)

Thou wilt keephimin perfect peace,whosemindisstayedonthee:...
(Isaiah 26:3 (to :))

... we have the mind of Christ.
(I Corinthians 2:16 we)

SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES by MARY BAKER EDDY

Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 462:23–24)

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 506:18)

Spirit diversifies, classifies, and individualizes all thoughts, which are as eternal as the Mind conceiving them; but the intelligence, existence, and continuity of all individuality remain in God, who is the divinely creative Principle thereof.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 513:17)

God creates all forms of reality. His thoughts are spiritual realities.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 513:26–27)

We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 129:22–24)

God’s thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance and Life. Material and temporal thoughts are human, involving error, and since God, Spirit, is the only cause, they lack a divine cause. The temporal and material are not then creations of Spirit. They are but counterfeits of the spiritual and eternal. Transitory thoughts are the antipodes of everlasting Truth, though (by the supposition of opposite qualities) error must also say, “I am true.” But by this saying error, the lie, destroys itself.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 286:21)

Do we gain the omnipotent ear sooner by words than by thoughts?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 13:13–14)

Thousands of instances could be cited of health restored by changing the patient’s thoughts regarding death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 79:5)

You should banish all thoughts of disease and sin and of other beliefs included in matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 208:31–1)

The realization that all inharmony is unreal brings objects and thoughts into human view in their true light, and presents them as beautiful and immortal.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 276:12–14)

In the material world, thought has brought to light with great rapidity many useful wonders.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 268:1–2)

Human thoughts have their degrees of comparison. Some thoughts are better than others. A belief in Truth is better than a belief in error, but no mortal testimony is founded on the divine rock. Mortal testimony can be shaken. Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 297:24)

My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried its fondest earthly hopes.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 299:7–9)

Mortal mind produces its own phenomena, and then charges them to something else, — like a kitten glancing into the mirror at itself and thinking it sees another kitten.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 220:18)

The error of thinking that we are growing old, and the benefits of destroying that illusion, are illustrated in a sketch from the history of an English woman, published in the London medical magazine called The Lancet.

Disappointed in love in her early years, she became insane and lost all account of time. Believing that she was still living in the same hour which parted her from her lover, taking no note of years, she stood daily before the window watching for her lover’s coming. In this mental state she remained young. Having no consciousness of time, she literally grew no older. Some American travellers saw her when she was seventy-four, and supposed her to be a young woman. She had no care-lined face, no wrinkles nor gray hair, but youth sat gently on cheek and brow. Asked to guess her age, those unacquainted with her history conjectured that she must be under twenty.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 245:1–17)

Mortals think wickedly; consequently they are wicked. They think sickly thoughts, and so become sick. If sin makes sinners, Truth and Love alone can unmake them. If a sense of disease produces suffering and a sense of ease antidotes suffering, disease is mental, not material. Hence the fact that the human mind alone suffers, is sick, and that the divine Mind alone heals.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 270:24)

Mortal belief is a liar from the beginning, not deserving power. It says to mortals, “You are wretched!” and they think they are so; and nothing can change this state, until the belief changes.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 296:31–2)

A blundering despatch, mistakenly announcing the death of a friend, occasions the same grief that the friend’s real death would bring. You think that your anguish is occasioned by your loss. Another despatch, correcting the mistake, heals your grief, and you learn that your suffering was merely the result of your belief. Thus it is with all sorrow, sickness, and death. You will learn at length that there is no cause for grief, and divine wisdom will then be understood. Error, not Truth, produces all the suffering on earth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 386:16)

When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, “I am hurt!” Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 397:12)

Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and is there intelligence in matter?

Answer. — No, not if God is true and mortal man a liar. ... How can intelligence dwell in matter when matter is non-intelligent and brain-lobes cannot think? Matter cannot perform the functions of Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 478:14–17, 20–23)

Thoughts, proceeding from the brain or from matter, are offshoots of mortal mind; they are mortal material beliefs.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 88:11–14 (to 1st .))

The human mind has been an idolater from the beginning, having other gods and believing in more than the one Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 186:32)

It is the prerogative of the ever-present, divine Mind, and of thought which is in rapport with this Mind, to know the past, the present, and the future.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 84:11)

This Soul-sense comes to the human mind when the latter yields to the divine Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 85:4)

Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us to commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, to be divinely inspired, — yea, to reach the range of fetterless Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 84:14)

In Christian Science, man can do no harm, for scientific thoughts are true thoughts, passing from God to man.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 103:32)

Evil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more harm than one’s belief permits. Evil thoughts, lusts, and malicious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen, from one human mind to another, finding unsuspected lodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defence.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 234:31–3)

The real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling every effect and recognizing all causation as vested in divine Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 379:6)

The pure and uplifting thoughts of the teacher, constantly imparted to pupils, will reach higher than the heavens of astronomy; while the debased and unscrupulous mind, though adorned with gems of scholarly attainment, will degrade the characters it should inform and elevate.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 235:13)

As human thought changes from one stage to another of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow and joy, — from fear to hope and from faith to understanding, — the visible manifestation will at last be man governed by Soul, not by material sense.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 125:12–16)

Spiritual, not corporeal, consciousness is needed.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 67:27–28)