Sunday, September 15th, 2024 Roundtable
We Walk by Faith
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Substance
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Morning Prayers
Beloved Father-Mother, God, give me wisdom to meet the problems I may have to meet today; give me understanding to deny error and to proclaim the truth. Give me grace to keep silent when speech is unnecessary. There is no strife, for Truth, risen Truth will destroy error of every sort. And heaven is right here. God gives abundance of intelligence and opportunity. I cannot be impoverished mentally, physically, spiritually, or financially. God is substance and I reflect that substance.
— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 60
Discussion points
462 — WATCH lest you complain when God calls upon you for a test of true loyalty. A dog is trained by being given a bit of food as a reward, each time he obeys. The day comes when he is required to obey without the rewards. The time comes when God requires our obedience from sheer love of good, even if we get no human harmony as a reward.
It is a simple matter to want to obey God and watch thought, when rewards in human health, harmony and prosperity are promised; but Mrs. Eddy once asked this searching question (See C. S. Journal, Vol. 5, page 56), “Are Christian Scientists as faithful as the seasons, birds and flowers? … Will they sing in the storm? If buds of hope disclose scarcely one blossom, and birds are silent, will they yet wait and work … ?”
— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
GOLDEN TEXT I John 5 : 4
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”