Corrective purity and the power of innocence

Spiritual resource to share: innocence

(This post, written two years ago, also answers the dilemma of those who have felt they have made irrevocable mistakes. [See last post on the mistake about mistakes.] As spring is coming up here in the northern hemisphere, it is a timely season to clear thought of all residue of regret and cut to the core of our spiritual innocence. Drink deeply.)

Have you ever felt that something you lacked in life actually caused a problem? Like, "If only I would have prayed more, then I wouldn't have had this problem." Or "I am so ignorant, no wonder I got into this mess." Or even "I must have done something bad, because something bad has happened to me."

I think that the impulse to find a cause for things that go wrong or to blame someone (even one's self) or something is age-old. I recently came across this story from the Bible in John:

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Jesus lifted up the whole argument to show that these questions had nothing to do with what was going on! And the undercurrent to his remark denied that a person's sin could cause disease, or the sin of the others could cause disease in someone else.

What is going on is the daily opportunity we each have to prove the power of God in our lives to overcome anything unlike God -- "that the works of God should be made manifest...."

Whereas western medicine, psychology, self-doubt, even juicy gossip(!) may try to find a cause in matter or in personal inadequacies that leads to the effect of disease, Christ Jesus' healing work raises the platform to the spiritual and works from this basis:

The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the immutable and perfect. The inharmonious and self-destructive never touch the harmonious and self-existent.

The clear separation between what is real and unreal brings about healing and awakening. As our standpoint is that we are good, pure, intelligent, having abundance in all things, we have that strength and dominion to dismantle, dissolve and eliminate the error, discord or disease.

I have a favorite poem by Godfrey John called "This Moment of Your Living" and an excerpt reads:

The innocence of what you are flares through the guilt of what you are not.

This mirrors Mary Baker Eddy's statement:

Innocence and Truth overcome guilt and error.

Our purity is a fixed fact. I can see how powerful this fact is. This corrects a preoccupation that we lack something or the mistaken view that this lack can cause something bad. God, Truth is the only Cause. We are the effect of that Cause. Our Truth is our innocence, and it burns through anything unlike good, God enabling us to stand strong and free.

© Nikolay Okhitin - FOTOLIA

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