WATCHING POINT 132

Watch lest you conceive of the power of God as acting in your behalf to care for you and protect you only when you are consciously thinking right.  Your demonstration is to establish the fact that your light is shining away the darkness of fear, whether your conscious thought seems scientific, or, for the moment, depressed.  You must know that the phase of mortal mind that is trying to call itself you has no power to interfere with the eternal operation and care of infinite Love.

You must outgrow the conception of God which says that, if you have a clear and scientific ability to argue the truth, His power is at hand; whereas His power is withdrawn when your scientific arguments cease.

We should work, watch and pray, - study and argue truth, - not because we fancy that God will withdraw Himself and that we will cease to receive his care and protection, but because we see the importance of keeping the normal level of thought at that high point where there will be no loss of the inflow of that which we need for wisdom and life.

Today we must keep ourselves aroused to a daily spiritual effort, not because we believe God will withdraw Himself if we do not, but because we fear that our consciousness of Him may leak away, or that inactivity may permit the clouds of animal magnetism to veil our vision of Him, as mist gathers at night when the air is motionless.

- adapted from 500 watching points for Advancing Students of Christian Science

written by Gilbert C. Carpenter, CSB & Gilbert C. Carpenter, Jr., CSB

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