"Turn from their wicked ways"

[JoanneF]

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (II Chron. 7:14)

I had been thinking that this applied to anyone else other than me, for I didn’t think my ways were wicked. But I am realizing — thanks to help from practitioner — that any belief of life (pain or pleasure) in matter, is a wicked way and opens the door to all discord. Therefore, my only safety and security, my only happiness and peace, is not, as it says in the lesson, to “run every man unto his own house (materiality),” but to dwell in the “house of the LORD,” spiritual consciousness, “the understanding of God in Science which destroys human delusions about Him and reveals the grand realities of His allness.” (S&H 328:10-13) Then, any pain that would try to suggest itself to me, is not in my body, not in matter, but is merely the “opposition to spirituality” which would try to take me out of God’s “house.” Thus “the pains of sense are salutary,” and become the “wholesome chastisements of Love.”

What a wonderful awakening! Thank you, practitioner, for helping me see this, and thank you, lesson-writer, for this magnificent and healing Lesson on God!

[Florence]

Thanks for this post, explaining this crucial insight. Denying God’s Allness is the sin/wicked way that can be so subtle and not recognized for so long and thus can keep any evil/claim/suggestion going for years. If anything denies God’s Allness is it not sinful and wicked as pointed out above? That is anything that suggests imperfection in God’s own child.
One who had been in severe pain for 35 years, only having temporary relief in other methods, finally found his “healing” when this very point was made clear to him and he accepted it.

This must be the reason for this question and its very direct answer: When a long time sufferer asks, How Long? The answer is, “As long as you deny my Allness.” Let’s be awake and no longer be deceived by error which keeps us seeking a healing for a claim instead of steadily realizing our perfection which has not a single element of error. We can be working in the wrong direction for so long while the only correct direction is seeking God, patiently realizing our true being in Him and finding our rest in Love!

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