May 24th, 2023

From The Bible

Isa. 52:9

¶ Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. 

Isa. 32:18

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; 

Deut. 26:7–9 when

... when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. 

Ps. 91:1, 2 (to :), 2 in, 3, 8–10 (to ,), 11

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: ... in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. ...

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, ...

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 

Acts 17:24, 26 (to 1st ,), 27 (to 1st ,), 27 though, 28 (to ;)

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; ...

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, ...

That they should seek the Lord, ... though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; ...

Mark 1:14 Jesus, 15 (to :)

... Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: ...

Luke 11:2 When (to 4th ,), 2 2nd Thy (to 2nd .)

... When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, ... Thy kingdom come. ...

Luke 17:20, 21

¶ And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 

Matt. 19:16, 17 (to 1st ,)

¶ And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, ...

Matt. 6:19, 20 (to 1st ,), 20 2nd where, 33

¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, ... where thieves do not break through nor steal: ...

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 

Matt. 18:2–4

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

Luke 6:47, 48

Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 

John 13:1, 36 (to ;); 14:1–3 (to 1st ,), 3 that, 16–18 (to :), 26

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. ...

... ¶ Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; ...

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, ... that where I am, there ye may be also. ...

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: ...

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 

I Cor. 3:16

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 

Ps. 90:1, 2

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 

Ps. 23:1 (to ;), 3 (to :), 4 (to ;), 6 2nd and

The Lord is my shepherd; ...

He restoreth my soul: ...

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou artwith me; ...

... and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. 

SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES by MARY BAKER EDDY

SH 254:31

Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God. 

SH 587:25–26 (to 1st ;)

Heaven. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; ...

SH 6:14

To reach heaven, the harmony of being, we must understand the divine Principle of being. 

SH 560:10–15

Heaven represents harmony, and divine Science interprets the Principle of heavenly harmony. The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man. 

SH 291:13

Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifestations of Mind are harmonious and immortal, because sin is not there and man is found having no righteousness of his own, but in possession of “the mind of the Lord,” as the Scripture says. 

SH 492:25

God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind. On this statement rests the Science of being, and the Principle of this Science is divine, demonstrating harmony and immortality. 

SH 476:28–32

When speaking of God's children, not the children of men, Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you;” that is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, showing that man in God's image is unfallen and eternal. 

SH 566:1–9

As the children of Israel were guided triumphantly through the Red Sea, the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear, — as they were led through the wilderness, walking wearily through the great desert of human hopes, and anticipating the promised joy, — so shall the spiritual idea guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul, from a material sense of existence to the spiritual, up to the glory prepared for them who love God. 

SH 444:10

Step by step will those who trust Him find that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” 

SH 122:1–7

The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the real Science of being, and so creates a reign of discord, — assigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and death; but the great facts of Life, rightly understood, defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false witnesses, and reveal the kingdom of heaven, — the actual reign of harmony on earth. 

SH 83:7–9

Mortals must find refuge in Truth in order to escape the error of these latter days. 

SH 223:3

Sooner or later we shall learn that the fetters of man's finite capacity are forged by the illusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul, in matter instead of in Spirit. 

SH 264:7, 15

Mortals must look beyond fading, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things. Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm of Mind? We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being. 

... When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness. 

SH 12:31–1

In divine Science, where prayers are mental, all may avail themselves of God as “a very present help in trouble.” 

SH 43:27–32

The divine must overcome the human at every point. The Science Jesus taught and lived must triumph over all material beliefs about life, substance, and intelligence, and the multitudinous errors growing from such beliefs. 

Love must triumph over hate. 

SH 332:19 Jesus

... Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God — the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth. 

SH 271:20

Our Master said, “But the Comforter . . . shall teach you all things.” When the Science of Christianity appears, it will lead you into all truth. The Sermon on the Mount is the essence of this Science, and the eternal life, not the death of Jesus, is its outcome. 

SH 454:5–9

The understanding, even in a degree, of the divine All-power destroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path, — the path which leads to the house built without hands “eternal in the heavens.” 

SH 127:26

Science is an emanation of divine Mind, and is alone able to interpret God aright. It has a spiritual, and not a material origin. It is a divine utterance, — the Comforter which leadeth into all truth. 

SH 303:28–9

Spiritual man is the image or idea of God, an idea which cannot be lost nor separated from its divine Principle. When the evidence before the material senses yielded to spiritual sense, the apostle declared that nothing could alienate him from God, from the sweet sense and presence of Life and Truth. 

It is ignorance and false belief, based on a material sense of things, which hide spiritual beauty and goodness. Understanding this, Paul said: “Neither death, nor life, . . . nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.” 

SH 174:9

The footsteps of thought, rising above material standpoints, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveller; but the angels of His presence — the spiritual intuitions that tell us when “the night is far spent, the day is at hand” — are our guardians in the gloom. Whoever opens the way in Christian Science is a pilgrim and stranger, marking out the path for generations yet unborn. 

SH 208:20

Let us learn of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of Spirit, the kingdom of heaven, — the reign and rule of universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain forever unseen. 

SH 248:29

Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love — the kingdom of heaven — reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear. 

SH 202:17

The days of our pilgrimage will multiply instead of diminish, when God's kingdom comes on earth; for the true way leads to Life instead of to death, and earthly experience discloses the finity of error and the infinite capacities of Truth, in which God gives man dominion over all the earth. 

SH 339:20–25 As

... As the mythology of pagan Rome has yielded to a more spiritual idea of Deity, so will our material theories yield to spiritual ideas, until the finite gives place to the infinite, sickness to health, sin to holiness, and God's kingdom comes “in earth, as it is in heaven.” 

SH 576:21

This kingdom of God “is within you,” — is within reach of man's consciousness here, and the spiritual idea reveals it. In divine Science, man possesses this recognition of harmony consciously in proportion to his understanding of God. 

SH 361:18

The Scripture reads: “For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.” 

Christian science hymnals

Hymn. 497

Home is the consciousness of good / That holds us in its wide embrace; / The steady light that comforts us / In every path our footsteps trace. 

Our Father's house has many rooms, / And each with peace and love imbued; / No child can ever stray beyond / The compass of infinitude. 

Home is the Father's sweet “Well done,” / God's daily, hourly gift of grace. / We go to meet our neighbor's need, / And find our home in every place. 

Words: Rosemary C. Cobham, alt.

Music: British melody; harm. and arr. Robert Rockabrand

Hymn. 278

Pilgrim on earth, home and heaven are within thee, / Heir of the ages and child of the day. / Cared for, watched over, beloved and protected, / Walk thou with courage each step of the way. 

Truthful and steadfast though trials betide thee, / Ever one thing do thou ask of thy Lord, / Grace to go forward, wherever He guide thee, / Gladly obeying the call of His word. 

Healed is thy hardness, His love hath dissolved it, / Full is the promise, the blessing how kind; / So shall His tenderness teach thee compassion, / So all the merciful, mercy shall find. 

Words: P. M., adapted

Music: H. Walford Davies

Hymn. 601

With one accord in one place, / In joyful praise of God's grace, / We join together in one divine embrace. / A rushing mighty Spirit / Descends from heaven, hear it: / “I have touched your heart / And made whole your heart, / Now go walk in My light.” / All can hear of it, / Hearts revealing it, / Gently moved by Your might. 

Of one accord, of one Mind, / Our healing mission we find. / We pray together—our lives in worship bind. / The Comforter is with us; / Its presence here assures us: / “I am guiding you / And uniting you / Through the love of God's Son. / I am blessing you; / I am healing you; / I am making you one.” 

Words: James R. Corbett

Music: Ryan Vigil