April 4th, From The Bible
... I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, ...
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: ...
And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: ...
(Joel 2:25 1st I (to 1st ,), 26 (to :), 27 (to :))
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. ¶ And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: ...
And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. ...
... ¶ And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. ...
... And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. ...
... ¶ And it came to pass when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; And they took him, and cast him into a pit: ...
Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt. ...
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.
(Genesis 37:3–5 (to :), 6–8, 12, 17 2nd And, 18, 23, 24 (to :), 28, 36)
And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. ...
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled. And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. ¶ But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
(Genesis 39:3, 19–23)
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: ...
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. ...
... ¶ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. ...
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; ...
Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. ...
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
(Genesis 41:1 (to :), 8, 14–16, 29, 30, 33, 39, 40)
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. ...
... ¶ And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ...
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
(Genesis 41:47, 53, 54, 57)
¶ And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. ...
And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth. ...
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
(Genesis 42:3, 6, 8)
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. ...
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: And there will I nourish thee; ...
(Genesis 45:4, 5, 8–11 (to 1st ;))
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
(Malachi 3:10)SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES by MARY BAKER EDDY
Throughout all generations both before and after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea, — the reflection of God, — has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which baptized these seers in the divine nature, the essence of Love. The divine image, idea, or Christ was, is, and ever will be inseparable from the divine Principle, God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 333:19–27)
Into the real and ideal man the fleshly element cannot enter. Thus it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence, or spiritual agreement, between God and man in His image.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 332:31)
JOSEPH. A corporeal mortal; a higher sense of Truth rebuking mortal belief, or error, and showing the immortality and supremacy of Truth; pure affection blessing its enemies.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 589:19)
We know no more of man as the true divine image and likeness, than we know of God.
The infinite Principle is reflected by the infinite idea and spiritual individuality, but the material so-called senses have no cognizance of either Principle or its idea. The human capacities are enlarged and perfected in proportion as humanity gains the true conception of man and God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 258:16–24)
It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brotherhood of man will be established.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 467:9–13)
At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one divinity.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 571:15)
As vapor melts before the sun, so evil would vanish before the reality of good. One must hide the other. How important, then, to choose good as the reality! Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing else. God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 480:31–4)
Man is the likeness of Spirit, but a material personality is not this likeness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 544:24–25)
Man’s individuality is not material. ...
What, then, is the material personality which suffers, sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness of God, but man’s counterfeit, the inverted likeness, the unlikeness called sin, sickness, and death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 285:2–3, 7–11)
Is man lost spiritually? No, he can only lose a sense material. All sin is of the flesh. It cannot be spiritual. Sin exists here or hereafter only so long as the illusion of mind in matter remains. It is a sense of sin, and not a sinful soul, which is lost. Evil is destroyed by the sense of good.
Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense and of mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a sense of temporary loss or absence of soul, spiritual truth. This state of error is the mortal dream of life and substance as existent in matter, and is directly opposite to the immortal reality of being. So long as we believe that soul can sin or that immortal Soul is in mortal body, we can never understand the Science of being. When humanity does understand this Science, it will become the law of Life to man, — even the higher law of Soul, which prevails over material sense through harmony and immortality.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 311:8–25)
Christian Science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 293:28)
All we correctly know of Spirit comes from God, divine Principle, and is learned through Christ and Christian Science. If this Science has been thoroughly learned and properly digested, we can know the truth more accurately than the astronomer can read the stars or calculate an eclipse. ... It is the illumination of the spiritual understanding which demonstrates the capacity of Soul, not of material sense. This Soul-sense comes to the human mind when the latter yields to the divine Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 84:28–1; 85:2)
Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious — as Life eternally is — can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not. Let Christian Science, instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of being, and this understanding will supplant error with Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence discord with harmony.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 495:16)
We approach God, or Life, in proportion to our spirituality, our fidelity to Truth and Love; and in that ratio we know all human need and are able to discern the thought of the sick and the sinning for the purpose of healing them. Error of any kind cannot hide from the law of God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 95:6)
The furnace separates the gold from the dross that the precious metal may be graven with the image of God. The cup our Father hath given, shall we not drink it and learn the lessons He teaches?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 66:31)
The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares. Then thought gently whispers: “Come hither! Arise from your false consciousness into the true sense of Love, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 574:27–2 (to ,))
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. ...
The miracle of grace is no miracle to Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 494:10–11, 15 (only))
Grace and Truth are potent beyond all other means and methods.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 67:23)
He that hath God his guardian made, / Shall underneath th’ Almighty’s shade / Fearless and undisturbed abide; / Thus to myself of Him I’ll say, / He is my fortress, shield and stay, / My God; in Him I will confide.
His tender love and watchful care / Shall free thee from the fowler’s snare, / From every harm and pestilence. / He over thee His wings shall spread / To cover thy unguarded head. / His truth shall be thy strong defense.
He gives His angels charge o’er thee, / No evil therefore shalt thou see; / Thy refuge shall be God most high; / Dwelling within His secret place, / Thou shalt behold His power and grace, / See His salvation ever nigh.Christian science hymnals
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 99)
God made all His creatures free; / Life itself is liberty; / God ordained no other bands / Than united hearts and hands.
One in fellowship of Mind, / We our bliss and glory find / In that endless happy whole, / Where our God is Life and Soul.
So shall all our slavery cease, / All God’s children dwell in peace, / And the newborn earth record / Love, and Love alone, is Lord.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 83)
Mine eyes look toward the mountains, / Help cometh from on high; / From God who never slumbers, / Whose care is ever nigh. / My foot shall not be moved, / My keeper is the Lord, / He never shall forsake me; / I trust me to His Word.
God keepeth me from falling, / Fulfilleth all my need; / His love doth e’er uphold me / In faithful word and deed. / He keepeth me from evil, / My onward way doth trace, / My going and my coming / He crowneth with His grace.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 189)
