Love-Impelled Duty
and Privilege
By
Julio C. Rivas, CS
Jesus Christ declared, “And these signs shall follow them that
believe: In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new
tongues; they
shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt
them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
Magnificent metaphysician and
healer, M. B. Eddy, wrote: “It is possible, -- yea, it is the duty and
privilege of every child, man, and woman, -- to follow in some degree the
example of our Master by the demonstration of Truth and Life, of health and
holiness” (S&H).
Love-Spirit is filling us every
instant with infinite spiritual resources and abilities. Hence, we have a duty to ourselves and others
to live and impart our innate, Christly endowments. What makes it a privilege is that by drawing
on our divine gifts we augment wellness in us and everyone.
It is Spirit’s ever-presence in us –
the ubiquitous Christ-spirit – which capacitates us to resolve confounding
problems, to supplant sickness with health, to enjoy improved relationships,
and to succeed in life.
Love-Spirit is infinite
goodness. It is preeminent in our
spiritual constitution and throughout its divine universe. The dominant, health-goodness-multiplying
energies of Love surround, nurture, and sculpt our spiritual lives.
When we connect mentally and
emotionally with Love we experience redemption and advancement. The Christ-spirit takes over and ejects
ignorance, fault, guilt, pain, illness and failure.
Love-Mind’s illuminating insights
alter our thought, body and behavior.
They enhance our character and decisions, and they infuse us with
superior health and talents.
Love-Truth’s superlative and imperious
goodness suffuses all spiritual existence.
Our cognizance of this has extensive beneficial repercussions. It exterminates all harmful influences,
removes obstructions, and reconstructs our lives.
Love’s matter-exterminating concepts
free us to experience the irrepressible energies of Spirit. By improving our motives and actions Truth’s intelligent
ideas allow us to enjoy more of Spirit’s exponential forces of health,
intelligence, grace and bounty.
We read in the New Testament that
when Jesus is about to commence his Sermon on the Mount he sits down
first. When he is about to multiply the
loaves and fish in order to feed the thousands he asks them to sit down
first. The “sitting down” may be
interpreted as doing what is necessary to relax and clear thought for
Love. Then we can receive and give of Mind-Love’s
bountiful wisdom and riches.
A man who was in great pain caused
by a tumor the size of a grapefruit went from a state of extreme distress and
fear to feel the comforting and assuring peace of Love’s presence. We had been talking and praying about his
Love-asserted wholeness when the fog of suffering began to part. He fell asleep and when he woke up he was completely
well. He noticed that the tumor had
exited his body and was on the bed next to him.
Our clear and calm trust in the
imperial goodness and efficacy of Love-Life ejects out of our humanity everything
that is not endemic to our Spirit-enforced constitution.
Life’s harmony-enforcing might liberates us
from the beliefs of sin and suffering. Truth
acts on our thought and infuses health and goodness into our bodies, our
character, our relationships, and into our business dealings.
Love treasures us as the
confirmation of its own glorious being.
Therefore, we are loved by Love in a way that is infinitely more dependable
than human love. This may not be clear
to us when the fog of material troubles is ruling us, but as we make the effort
to let in Love’s effulgence then we feel subsumed by it.
Love-Truth drives our duty and
privilege to express Love.
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