Article March 14, 1953 Issue

"CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS" WITH CONFIDENCE

DORIS DWORZNIK

It would not be difficult to have confidence in good, which means faith in good, at all times if it were more generally understood that confidence brings to light the spiritual laws of God, good, which eliminate the daily perplexities of mortal existence. But before we can gain confidence in good we must first pass a vote of "no confidence" in the substantiality of mortal perplexities, and at every opportunity we must cast down the imaginations that are seen in an anticipation of evil.

In II Corinthians (10:5) Paul speaks of "casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." This casting down plays an important part in our progress from material sense to spiritual consciousness.

Mary Baker Eddy tells us in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 261), "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts." When Jesus prepared to feed the multitude with a few loaves and fishes, was he not confident in the spiritual fact of abundance, the ever-operative divine law that meets our human needs? Did he not cast down imaginations of human belief when his disciples murmured of the impossibility of feeding so many with so little? Had Jesus been in the wilderness of mortal doubt, he could not have been confident of the presence of omnipotent good, and abundance could not have been experienced.

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