Watching Point 428

428 — WATCH that you put mental vigor and determination into your effort to dispute error, and to eject from consciousness the belief of a mind apart from God. It is necessary to fulfill Mrs. Eddy’s demand on page 421 of the textbook, “Insist vehemently on the great fact which covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside Him.”

If a stray animal sneaked into your house, you might have to take a broom and chase it out with vigor. It takes determination and activity to chase out the suggestions of fear and pleasure, a determination that nothing shall come to us or go forth from us but that which goeth forth from God, good.

The right declaration given with determination, is sufficient to oust any erroneous suggestion. If the broom represents our scientific understanding of Truth, then the straws illustrate the orderly way in which our scientific thought is bound together to become an effective eliminator of falsity.

Mrs. Eddy once said, “The earth is simply what we recognize with the material senses; hence, it is in reality mortal mind, and the declaration, ‘I give you dominion over the earth,’ means ‘I give you the power to control your mind.’” When we recognize the complete control God has given to us over our thinking, if we do not exercise this control, it is because we have accepted the suggestion that we cannot do it, or else that we do not want to do it.

428 — WATCH that you put mental vigor and determination into your effort to dispute error, and to eject from consciousness the belief of a mind apart from God. It is necessary to fulfill Mrs. Eddy’s demand on page 421 of the textbook, “Insist vehemently on the great fact which covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside Him.”

If a stray animal sneaked into your house, you might have to take a broom and chase it out with vigor. It takes determination and activity to chase out the suggestions of fear and pleasure, a determination that nothing shall come to us or go forth from us but that which goeth forth from God, good.

The right declaration given with determination, is sufficient to oust any erroneous suggestion. If the broom represents our scientific understanding of Truth, then the straws illustrate the orderly way in which our scientific thought is bound together to become an effective eliminator of falsity.

Mrs. Eddy once said, “The earth is simply what we recognize with the material senses; hence, it is in reality mortal mind, and the declaration, ‘I give you dominion over the earth,’ means ‘I give you the power to control your mind.’‛ When we recognize the complete control God has given to us over our thinking, if we do not exercise this control, it is because we have accepted the suggestion that we cannot do it, or else that we do not want to do it.