“Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate;” (Amos)

When Amos wrote this, the Israelites had lost their way. They had lost their sense of right and wrong and anybody and everybody was entering through the gate into the city. Mrs. Eddy instructs us to “Stand porter at the door of thought.” We are not responsible for the thoughts that come to us. But we are responsible for what we do with them. We alone are responsible for protecting our mentality. Devilish thoughts come to us often, trying to get us excited, envious, discouraged, or fearful, but we should bar the door of our thought as vigorously as we lock the doors of our house against thieves.

She gives us the test for what thoughts to let in: “Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously.” So, when thoughts of fear, lust, anger, or sickness try to gain a foothold in my consciousness, I have the power and authority of God to keep them out.

This is why it is so important to start each day by reading from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook; to fill my thought so much with the truth that there is no room for error to sneak in.