Day 79: Man governed by God

150:4 - 152:9

Some sections of this chapter I struggled to find anything on the two pages. This section, I underlined way too much. The main idea is covered in this paragraph:

Mortal belief says that death has been occasioned by fright. Fear never stopped being and its action. The blood, heart, lungs, brain, etc., have nothing to do with Life, God. Every function of the real man is governed by the divine Mind. The human mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no control over God's man. The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness. The human mind is opposed to God and must be put off, as St. Paul declares. All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal. The straight and narrow way is to see and acknowledge this fact, yield to this power, and follow the leadings of truth.

The first thing I noticed is that the paragraph summary is includes the word Mind. Second, the paragraph itself uses the word mind several times. This third thing I noticed was the idea of the beginning/only - as in God maintains his own [only] image. This isn't a treatment, but its powerful. It's too large to memorize and think about during the day so I'm going to mentally strip it down the words maintenance and function.