Sunday, August 4th, 2024 Roundtable
Begin Everything by Remembering that God is Love
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Love
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Morning Prayers
Love is a mighty spiritual force.
Let the good you can do and the stimulation of action keep
your mind from dwelling on the past, for the present demands your care, and you must go forth to meet the future calm and strong. God is your refuge and a strong deliverer. He will hide you under His wings till the storms are past and the sunlight of His presence cheers and invigorates you with new strength and exaltation.
— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), “Letters” by Mary Baker Eddy, page 139
He who clothes the lilies will tend you and gird you with strength in Truth and Love, and so establish the labor of your hands in His vineyard. Never distrust, never doubt the All-Love, for it never faileth. As your day, so shall your strength be. Be patient, and let faith grow stronger and stronger each day of this pilgrimage.
(3/19/00) Goodness such as yours is a sure pretext of success in all struggles to be ‘better.’ If a single sin remains – and who is destitute of all sin? – be of good cheer, for the victory over it is a foregone conclusion.
— from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 193
Discussion points
476 — WATCH that you hold a right concept of what denials accomplish in Christian Science. Once a student had a pain. He denied it, and prayed to be shown where he had erred. He asked God to teach him the lesson he needed to learn; but the pain persisted. Finally he prayed, “Oh God, rock me to sleep in Your arms.” At once the pain disappeared.
He learned that our work with error, or our denials, do not heal. The pain left when he sought a positive sense of good in which the error was submerged, as it were. This is why Mrs. Eddy once said, “Never leave a treatment until consciousness is baptized in Love.”
— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
GOLDEN TEXT: JOHN 13 : 15
“For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.” — Christ Jesus
Article Link Clear and Correct Teaching “Germs” by Herbert W. Eustace
“I Serve” from, The Christian Science Sentinel, January 13, 1906, by William D. McCrackan