Cherish No Resentment

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

We learn in Christian Science that the state of one's thinking accounts largely, if not completely, for the state of his outward experience. Actually, the world without is the objectification of the thought within. Just as the declaration of Christ Jesus (Luke 17:21), "The kingdom of God is within you," is true—and this is a basic premise of Science—so there is much truthfulness in the observation of the wise writer of Proverbs, who said of a man (23:7), "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."

When we entertain the true concept of man as the spiritual reflection of God, infinite Spirit, we bring to bear upon the human experience those spiritual qualities of divinity which express the nature of Deity in all His majesty, glory, and splendor. But if we give entrance to negative, unattractive, unlovely, resentful thoughts, we invite corresponding states of human experience. Thus we see the necessity of learning not to cherish resentment.

Mrs. Eddy makes a provocative statement in her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 when she says (p. 19): "The Christian Scientist cherishes no resentment; he knows that that would harm him more than all the malice of his foes. Brethren, even as Jesus forgave, forgive thou."

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