Daily Watch for the week of July 17th, – July 24th, 2022
From 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
190 — WATCH lest you inadvertently fight against the action of Truth as it enters your life and adjusts effect to correspond to cause. War often comes because of this very necessity. Nations become wrong thinkers, and the demand of Truth is that this wrong thinking be exposed, since only in that way can it be corrected. War simply means that wrong thinking is being exposed so that it can be corrected.
Never fancy that Truth is creating an evil when it stirs up the muddy river bed, as Science and Health says, and causes mortal mind to express itself as discord and evil, instead of as human good. The Master said, “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Truth comes to show that the effect of an evil cause must be evil — an intent to destroy which corresponds with cause. It should never be a peace, peace, when there is no peace.
Mortal man complains when demonstration drives hidden error into expression; yet this must be done. Paul admonishes us to “rejoice in infirmity;” this must refer to hidden error that is forced to the surface because it is ripe for destruction.
When Truth forces mortal mind into an expression which exposes its murderous, destructive nature, mortals learn the character of the sin they commit — the idolatry — when they put matter, which is only the shadow of mortal mind, in the place of God, to worship it, to love, or fear it.
Before mortal man will arouse himself to throw off mortal mind, like must express itself in like, so that mortal belief may be unmasked. Thus students need to be warned not to fight the action of Truth as it causes like to manifest itself in like. Truth never produces evil; it exposes it.
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from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, as given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 49
“Hear, O Israel, for the Lord, our God, is one God.”
You are not to come in your own name to pray.
You are not to control any mind.
You are to come only in the divine strength, and know that God will rule and does, and that hypnotism and evil minds cannot, and do not, control men or governments.
All power is God, good.
This is my only formula to Christian Scientists for prayer, and God will give you faith that will remove mountains.