“…because my word hath no place in you. … He that is of God heareth God’s words:” Words of Christ Jesus (John 8)
PLACE (Websters 1828) (ie: Bible quotes were included in the definition)
“…occupied by any person or thing, and considered as the space where a person or thing does or may rest or has rested,-‘The place where thou standest is holy ground.’ Exo 3.
order of priority, dignity or importance.
kind reception. -‘My word hath no place in you.’ John 8.
To give room; to give advantage; to yield to the influence of; to listen to. -‘Neither give place to the devil.’ Eph 4.”
What am I giving place to in my thinking? Am I being receptive to Christ, giving priority to the things of God? The line by Mrs. Eddy says, “Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full.” (My. 210) This has taken tremendous discipline for me fill my thoughts, to give room, presence to thoughts of God, of His goodness to displace the adam dream pictures. For the love of God and mankind I am learning here to watch what I am allowing to rest in my consciousness. The undeniable results have proven to me the correctness of the clear teachings of Christian Science at Plainfield which have been correcting many misconceptions I had about the human mind and what it means to reflect the divine Mind. Mrs. Eddy makes clear the human mind is opposed to God. I had the misconception that the human mind was something to cherish and make “good”. I am so grateful for Carpenter’s books, especially Spiritual Footsteps where he explains this process of putting off the human mind in great detail.
“When the mechanism of the human mind gives place to the divine Mind, selfishness and sin, disease and death, will lose their foothold.” By Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health p.176