It matters what we think. Every day, we entertain thousands of thoughts. And while it can seem like those thoughts simply come and go and there’s not much we can do about them, in fact, we have the power at every moment to determine which thoughts we accept and which we reject. But on what basis?
Any thought that is truly good comes from God, because God is good itself. We know thoughts are from God when they are loving and bring blessings, since Love is a biblical name for God. God’s thoughts are honest, since Truth is also a name for God in the Bible. We feel a sense of peace as we act from the basis of these thoughts. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus emphasizes the importance of right thinking. He warns against anger, lust, judging others (see Matthew 5:22, 27, 28; 7:1). These would not be thoughts from God, good.
Jesus continuously listened to God, and so can we. He spoke of his oneness with God: “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). We can feel that oneness as well, expressing God in the many ways that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, writes about Him in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. In answer to the question, “What is God?” she writes, “God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love” (p. 465). As ideas of Mind, we are intelligent, receptive, limitless, accurate. Expressing Truth, we are just, truthful, sincere. As the reflection of Love, we are gentle, gracious, kind, humble.
