Fear-proof your future

The time to start is now, not tomorrow.

Russ Gerber

Is a techno-future in store for us, as many would have us believe, where everything takes second place to a world of computers and robotics? Or will the future look more like the doomsday scenarios put forth in some of the millennium books now crowding into bookstores? With so many people wanting to warn society of a cold, precarious world of the future, one would think that none of us has a say in what lies ahead.

Perhaps it's time for a reminder: don't be fooled by fears and speculations about the future. That's not to say there won't be challenges to face in the days and years ahead. But what's needed is to know that we already have sufficient understanding, courage, wisdom, and creativity to surmount tomorrow's challenges, and to live better and safer lives. This begins in the present. We reap what we sow.

The place to start sowing is in one's own consciousness. And again, the time to start is now, not to-morrow. The kind of sowing we're talking about is the acceptance of the highest quality of thoughts and desires. Being spiritually-minded. Thoughts that are spiritual and purely good are thoughts from God, divine Spirit. Such thoughts preserve and protect us. They guide and heal. Regular prayer to God makes us aware of His thoughts; our prayers bring spiritual truth and understanding, and spiritual power. This spiritual-mindedness is vital to well-being. "Nothing aside from the spiritualization—yea, the highest Christianization—of thought and desire, can give the true perception of God and divine Science, that results in health, happiness, and holiness," writes Mary Baker Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 15).

One of the first and foremost things learned in worshiping God and investigating the Science of Christianity, is just how well-equipped we all are to live safe and secure lives. That's because we are, in fact, God's children, living in God's universe, a universe that is good and loving and kept in perfect order by divine law.

Accepting what God is and all that He is eternally expressing throughout His creation, we experience the very practical, preserving, healing effect of spiritual understanding and spiritual power. Fear lessens and disappears. Life feels more sure-footed, on track. We don't have to go along with the claim that either materialism or evil in some form has the power to run amok and overtake people's lives. That is not the destiny of God's man or of His universe. Everything that is God-created is permanent and continues to express the harmony and goodness of its creator.

No matter how hardhitting are the predictions of a bleak future, we are fully able to reject such predictions. We are always capable of rejecting what isn't true about us or our environment. The truth is, and will always be, that our being is God-made, held safe and sound in God's universe.

Being planted and rooted and governed by Spirit and its laws, we reap a life that is secure and blessed. A life that is whole and harmonious. One that is sustained by God, today and forever.

Russ Gerber
Associate Editor

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