(Just ran across something I wrote awhile ago to a fellow Christian Scientist which might prove helpful to readers of my blog)
"Dear Friend,
Have been thinking deeply about what you said the other night, about being afraid, and something has come to me that you can--or no doubt--need to work on. And that is being more obedient and alive to what our dear Master brings out about God's love and care and power. Take this statement alone, in Luke 12:32 where Jesus says:
Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Now, I know you accept that intellectually, as true. But there are two parts to this, in my view: first a command to not fear, a command! Then, a comforting statement of divine fact, that God wants us to have all good, and that includes health and safety and unafraidness, doesn't it? I think there is where God may seem far away from you at times--lack of taking Christ at His word, and living through the day and night as though you really believed the Word of God to be true as it relates to you. Why on earth are too many so-called followers content to go around believing what Jesus called a murderer and a liar, and doubting God?!
You could buy, or borrow, a Bible that has Christ's words in red. I have one, and read from time to time everything our Lord said. Further, Mrs. Eddy brings out in Science and Health on page 115 in the "Scientific translation of mortal mind" that "fear" is actually "depravity". Think of this! Does it not behoove us to put it down as vigorously as we can, and awake to the glorious security and freedom and good that our heavenly --Father wants us to have--accept without reservation that Jesus meant what He said, instead of believing demoralizing and illness-producing insinuations from His enemy?
While fear tries in all kinds of ways to come in between us and God, we do have the truths that, if dug out and held tenaciously to--and obeyed--will keep us more and more out of evil's reach. It is only a false and untrue sense that our loving Father is ever absent from His children. And through accepting without reservation what Jesus said, as well as what Christian Science brings out about the unreality of those things that would make us afraid, we find ourselves more and more having the mastery over fear."
