Sunday, September 29th, 2024 Roundtable
The Rock That is Higher Than I
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Reality
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Morning Prayers
II. God is what the Scriptures declare Him to be, — Life, Truth, Love. Spirit is divine Principle, and divine Principle is Love, and Love is Mind, and Mind is not both good and bad, for God is Mind; therefore there is in reality one Mind only, because there is one God.
V. The Scriptures imply that God is All-in-all. From this it follows that nothing possesses reality nor existence except the divine Mind and His ideas.
— from Science and Health, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 330-331
Discussion points
436 — WATCH lest you forget, in your need to solve difficult problems and to study the letter of Christian Science, to take time to soar mentally into the realm of spiritual uplift, in order to contemplate heaven peopled with spiritual beings governed in perfect harmony. We need to refresh our hearts and souls with this vision at frequent intervals, lest we dwell on error until we make a reality of it, or become weary in well doing. It was for this reason that Mrs. Eddy once said to the students in her home, “Let your minds go out every two hours, all is peace, good will, love, etc. Say nothing of error; confine your thoughts to the right side.”
If you make a treadmill out of your Science work, you are liable to keep errors alive day after day, working on them endlessly, as a woman would do on a sock she was knitting, if she never toed it in. We must work on error and then have done with it, in order that we may progress through the unlabored motion of the divine energy, and fill our thoughts with good.
Once Mrs. Eddy wrote to James Neal, “Can you realize what glories come with Christian Science? And do you see the day dawning and the daystar appear? Yes, you do, for love includes it, and you do ‘love much.'” Mrs. Eddy perceived that Mr. Neal needed to contemplate this vision, lest he grow weary and faint in his heart with too much contemplation of the claim of error and of the material problem. Read Science and Health, 426:5-11; 32:25.
— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
GOLDEN TEXT Deuteronomy 32 : 4
“He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.”
Final Readings
Article — “Letter on Sight” by Mary Baker Eddy