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Trusting our wishes to God
What would it mean if every single wish that anyone ever made came true? While we’d certainly be seeing a lot of wonderful happenings, we’d also be dealing with the effects of destructive and ill-conceived desires. How chaotic might the world become?
But there’s a way to consistently improve and elevate our desires: honestly making space in our thought for God, rather than letting willfulness take over. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, explains right at the beginning of her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds” (p. 1).
Christian Science explains that God created every one of us spiritually, and therefore our real purpose isn’t about manipulating physicality, it’s about expressing God’s loving, capable, and utterly good nature. God’s will for us is always to shine brightly with His reflected light! Choosing to embrace God’s will is a form of prayer, as Jesus demonstrated when he said, “Not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42).
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