Cut the current— shut off the error

R. WILLIAM ALDERSON

One day I was cleaning grass clippings from the bottom of the electric lawn mower. There was no danger that the cutting blade would somehow get started or that I'd receive an electrical shock. I was safe because I had pulled the plug from the power supply.

Then I thought, "Why don't I always disconnect beliefs in accidents and other evils from their supposed source?" I wasn't even tempted to believe that somehow, if I weren't careful, I could be harmed by the mower. Couldn't I be equally safe from every evil belief if I pulled the plug on it—realized that evil is cut off from any actual source of existence?

God is the only real power, the only origin of existence, and He is completely good. If a condition does not come from God, it is impotent. Paul reminds us, "There is no power but of God."^{Rom. 13:1;} And when apparently under Pilate's control, Christ Jesus said, "Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above."^{John 19:11;} Jesus denied that any supposed force contrary to God had ability to harm him. Had he not walked away from perilous situations before? Even this time he could have escaped, since he knew where real power lay.

How often do we allow a false, threatening belief to build up in our thought until we see no way to avoid an evil consequence? We need to pull the plug on evil at the outset, to deny power to anything not from God. If it is not good, it has no fundamental reality. We need not fear what isn't real, what doesn't express the beneficence of our divine Father-Mother, Love. Mrs. Eddy states in the Christian Science textbook, "God is infinite, therefore ever present, and there is no other power nor presence."^{Science and Health, p. 471.}

You and I have the ability to attribute all might to God and to pull the plug on evil. As we differentiate between true thoughts from God and false notions of error and disbelieve the latter, we will establish our well-being on an unshakable foundation.

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