christian quotes on 'pressing the reset button'

Where others saw a sinful or sickly mortal, he saw the pure and perfect child of God. One dictionary synonym for revise is “correct.”Ĭhrist Jesus’ time on earth was devoted to healing the sick and regenerating the sinner by setting the record straight about man’s true history. Eddy wrote, “The human history needs to be revised, and the material record expunged” ( Retrospection and Introspection, p. With each thought like this that we see or hear, we can mentally hit “refresh.” Worldly thought, however, is constantly trying to download onto humankind the opposite, material account of creation and convince us it’s the real one, with endless reports and images of sin, sickness, death, and general discord. It is the only real history we have, since it is given to us from God, our creator and sustainer. Reading and studying the writings of the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, we find that this record of creation is our spiritual history and includes health, harmony, and nothing other than good.

This spiritual account of creation says we were made in the likeness of God, divine Spirit, and this is our original being-our “factory setting,” you might say, which we need to reset our thought to accept. But I’ve learned in Christian Science that it is possible to hit “refresh” in a spiritual sense and experience the health and harmony that spiritual regeneration brings.Īs I thought about this family member’s comment, it occurred to me that we “refresh” each time we see more clearly this universal truth in Christian Science: that we have one true identity, which is spiritual, in line with the account of creation in Genesis 1 in the Bible.

Like many, I can think of more than one occasion when I’ve wished I could press a refresh or restore button on life.

Clicking on the restore option prompts a reminder that everything previously downloaded onto our device will be erased, and the device will return to its original settings, or condition. In this high-tech world, most of us probably have an electronic device that has a “refresh” button or “restore to factory settings” option.

Christian quotes on 'pressing the reset button'