Sunday, May 12th, 2024 Roundtable
Rise Above the Mist
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Adam And Fallen Man
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Morning Prayers
Mentally treat yourself that nothing can govern your actions or come to your thought that is not from the divine Mind. Be strong there. So many sinister suggestions come to mind, watch! and each day commit yourself to the care of our one Parent, trust Him, turn to Him in all your ways for light to direct your footsteps and wisdom to enable you to separate the tares from the wheat—so that you can judge well between the human or the evil ‘suggestion’ and the good or divine impulse.
Search me, oh God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my thoughts;
And see if there be any wicked way in me.
— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 220, 143
Discussion points
159 — WATCH lest you believe that your work is to gain a perfect sense of yourself, in order to get into the kingdom of heaven, rather than to perfect your sense of yourself as God’s child, in order that you may perfect your idea of all mankind, which reveals the kingdom of heaven here and now. We are not preparing to go to heaven. Heaven is within, and it will appear without in proportion as we realize this grand verity.
— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
GOLDEN TEXT: JOHN 3 : 7
“Ye must be born again.”
Article — “The Way” by Mary Baker Eddy
Book — Chapter 7: “Pond and Purpose”, from Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, page 203
Article — “Individual Consciousness” by Bicknell Young
Article “The New Birth” Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy
Thoughts shared on the Lesson from readers:
Article “God and Man” by Edward Kimball
Final Readings
In these days of social unrest, of sharp and almost merciless competition for personal supremacy in all lines of human endeavor,— commercial, political, and religious,—the world can listen to no better counsel than that of Paul to the Ephesians: “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
Humility is wholly apart from the false sense dominated by fear and timidity, which shrinks from the private and public duties and responsibilities of daily life, and which frequently finds expression in sensitiveness, selfishness, and helplessness.
True humility has ever been characteristic of the faithful followers of Jesus. It is a normal, harmonious condition of consciousness, and is manifested in true brotherliness, unselfish love, untiring energy; it is satisfied and amply rewarded with the “Well done” of Spirit, and is not affected by the plaudits of men. If need be, it is aggressive to the point of daring, courageous to the extreme of wisdom, meek to the limit of forbearance. It has been described by an old writer as the virtue “which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.”
— “True Humility” from Christian Science Sentinel, January 15, 1903 by M.