Welcome to the Christian Science Daily Lift.

We're so happy you've joined us in today's inspiration.

Tim Mitchinson is sharing his lift, New Vistas of God, as principal.

He's a Christian science practitioner and teacher from Naperville, Illinois.

Thank you. practitioner and teacher from Naperville, Illinois. Life can seem full of ups and downs,

but Christian science brings an understanding of God as divine principle

and is never wavering in his goodness.

Principle refers to the law-enforcing omnipotence

that the Bible attributes to him.

The source of that law is divine principle.

Realizing this helps dissolve fear and worry.

Jesus' encouraging words,

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your father which is in heaven is perfect,

express the understanding of God as principle,

and of man, the true spiritual identity of each of us

as the perfect creation of our perfect creator.

Once I woke up in the early morning hours and found it extremely difficult to breathe.

My throat had swollen almost shut.

I woke my wife and asked her to call a Christian science practitioner to pray for me while I went

into my office to pray. For a few weeks before this, I had been thinking a lot about God as divine

principle. And now the assurance principle governs me came clearly to thought. I opened my computer to a concordance of the

Bible in Mary Baker Eddy's works and type the words principle and governs into the search bar.

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