“. . . Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what he shall put on.” (Luke 12:22 – Citation #3)
The importance of the word “let” was mentioned in a couple of recent Plainfield Roundtable discussions, which led me to re-read an association address entitled “Let God Do It,” by Wentworth Byron Winslow (from “The Bookmark”). And, during the Roundtables for the Lessons entitled “Mind” and “Sacrament,” it was stated that the human mind needs to be completely denied and “put off,” as it is against the law of God – “The human mind is opposed to God…” (S & H, p. 151). And, in the “Blue Book” (p. xv), Mrs. Eddy states that the so-called human mind must be “ruled out” (eliminated, excluded by decision).
The following citations from the Winslow address have been helpful to me on this subject, and came to mind when reading Jesus’ instruction from Luke 12:22:
“In any system of right thinking, the person tries to do some right thinking in order to counteract some wrong thinking or its results. This is not Christian Science. In the Science of Mind, or Mind healing, instead of the person trying to do some right thinking, he tries to get himself out of the way, eliminate self, or as the Master said, ‘deny himself.’ He endeavors as Jesus also said to ‘Take no thought’ – not take right thought, but to ‘Take NO thought’; he tries to stop his own thinking, to still the human mind, or ‘silence the material senses’ (S & H, p. 15). . . . and so let the Christ, the actual presence of God, the one Mind, arise in him, . . . . Your thinking with the human mind is nought but a lot of suggestions, fruits of the ‘tree of knowledge of good and evil,’ or of right thinking and wrong thinking, and this tree must be cut down root and branch. This is done when and as you still the human mind, or stop your own thinking, whereupon does this Christ-Mind arise in you or the Spirit rests upon you, and guides you into harmony”; “…surely, it is high time that we cease our thinking and let God do the thinking for us!”