Article April 14, 2025 Issue

The kingdom within

Divine Mind’s loving ideas are permanently present—and filling your life.

Gay Bryant Flatt

I have often heard it said that Christian Science is “an inside job.” That’s one way to think about those precious words of Jesus, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). That’s because practicing Christian Science commences with understanding how our thinking impacts our experience and seeing to it that in prayer our thinking consistently commences with God and His creation. Christian Science is about thought being spiritually uplifted and bringing to light the kingdom of God within us—within our consciousness.

This way of thinking is transformative because divine Truth is both transformative and transcendent. It changes us by lifting us above the ordinary to the extraordinary—the divine. Truth is God, is supernal, and forms us anew.

No matter what is clamoring for our attention, it’s in our thinking that we have to deal with it.