LOVE — Love Alone is Power

January 19, 2022 Skye Malone

Readings for January 19th, 2021

From The Bible

The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
(Jeremiah 31:3)

... I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? ...
(Isaiah 6:8 I (to ?))

I will send him against an hypocritical nation, ...
(Isaiah 10:6 (to 1st ,))

... unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; ...
(Malachi 4:2 unto (to ;))

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. ¶ But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, ...

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
(Matthew 9:35, 36 (to 2nd ,); 10:1)

¶ And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, ...

And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, ... they were sore displeased,
(Matthew 21:12 (to 3rd ,), 13–15 (to 1st ,), 15 they)

¶ 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.
(Luke 17:20, 21)

Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. ...

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: ...
(Matthew 23:1–4, 23 (to :))

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. ¶ And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, ...

The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, ...

... ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: ...
(Luke 13:10–14 (to 2nd ,), 15 (to 3rd ,), 16 ought, 17 (to :))

¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. ...

... ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
(Matthew 5:17, 43–45)

¶ And one of the scribes came, and ... asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, ...

... thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ...

And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; ...

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. ...
(Mark 12:28 (to 2nd and), 28 asked, 29 (to 1st ,), 30 thou, 31 (to 1st .), 32 (to ;), 33, 34 (to 1st .))

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, ... and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. ...

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
(I Corinthians 13:1–3 (to 1st ,), 3–8 3rd and, 13)

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
(II Corinthians 1:3, 4)

... the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
(Psalms 42:8 the)

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. This goal is never reached while we hate our neighbor or entertain a false estimate of anyone whom God has appointed to voice His Word.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 560:11–17)

The accusations of the Pharisees were as self-contradictory as their religion. ... They said: “He casteth out devils through Beelzebub,” and is the “friend of publicans and sinners.” The latter accusation was true, but not in their meaning. ... He rebuked sinners pointedly and unflinchingly, because he was their friend; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 52:29–30, 32–3 (to 1st .); 53:6–7 (to ;))

Like our Master, we must depart from material sense into the spiritual sense of being.

The God-inspired walk calmly on though it be with bleeding footprints, and in the hereafter they will reap what they now sow. The pampered hypocrite may have a flowery pathway here, but he cannot forever break the Golden Rule and escape the penalty due.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 41:6–13)

Jesus uncovered and rebuked sin before he cast it out. ... He came teaching and showing men how to destroy sin, sickness, and death. ...

It is believed by many that a certain magistrate, who lived in the time of Jesus, left this record: “His rebuke is fearful.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 6:23–24, 26–27, 29–31)

Jesus aided in reconciling man to God by giving man a truer sense of Love, the divine Principle of Jesus' teachings, and this truer sense of Love redeems man from the law of matter, sin, and death by the law of Spirit, — the law of divine Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 19:6)

Our Master cast out devils (evils) and healed the sick. It should be said of his followers also, that they cast fear and all evil out of themselves and others and heal the sick.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 494:30–32)

First in the list of Christian duties, he taught his followers the healing power of Truth and Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 31:12–13)

It is neither Science nor Truth which acts through blind belief, nor is it the human understanding of the divine healing Principle as manifested in Jesus, whose humble prayers were deep and conscientious protests of Truth, — of man's likeness to God and of man's unity with Truth and Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 12:10)

The “man of sorrows” best understood the nothingness of material life and intelligence and the mighty actuality of all-inclusive God, good. These were the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or Christian Science, which armed him with Love. The highest earthly representative of God, speaking of human ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;” ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 52:19–28 (to ;))

Ask yourself: ... Am I demonstrating the healing power of Truth and Love?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 496:9 Ask (only, to :), 11–12)

The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 450:19–22)

... 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. The Scriptures also declare that God is Spirit. ...

... He is divine Principle, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and there is no other self-existence.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 331:11–14 The, 18–20 He)

You will learn that in Christian Science the first duty is to obey God, to have one Mind, and to love another as yourself.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 496:5)

Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 192:30)

Hold perpetually this thought, — that it is the spiritual idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing, based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 496:15)

It must be clear to you that sickness is no more the reality of being than is sin. ... By the truthful arguments you employ, and especially by the spirit of Truth and Love which you entertain, you will heal the sick.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 418:12–13, 22)

The genuine Christian Scientist is adding to his patient's mental and moral power, and is increasing his patient's spirituality while restoring him physically through divine Love.

Palsy is a belief that matter governs mortals, and can paralyze the body, making certain portions of it motionless. Destroy the belief, show mortal mind that muscles have no power to be lost, for Mind is supreme, and you cure the palsy.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 375:17–25)

The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 201:17–18)

If Spirit or the power of divine Love bear witness to the truth, this is the ultimatum, the scientific way, and the healing is instantaneous. ...

... The power of Christian Science and divine Love is omnipotent.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 411:10; 412:13–14)

... to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 494:13 to)

My weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbor as himself, — when he shall realize God's omnipotence and the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done and is doing for mankind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 55:16–21)

Love is life's true crown and glory, / Love the splendor of the light, / Truly is God's counsel gentle, / Truly all His ways are bright; / Jesus knew the law of kindness, / Healing mind and heart of blindness; / And in heavenly wisdom taught / Holy works of love he wrought.

Love, the Golden Rule of living, / Showeth forth the perfect Mind; / Love, our debt to God who gives it, / All compassion is, and kind; / Charity the law fulfilleth, / Mid the nations rancor stilleth; / Loving hearts in friendship blend, / One in Him, our heavenly Friend.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 178)

Love is kind and suffers long, / Love is meek and thinks no wrong, / Love than death itself more strong; / Therefore give us love.

Prophecy will fade away, / Melting in the light of day; / Love will ever with us stay; / Therefore give us love.

Faith will vanish into sight; / Hope shall be fulfilled in light; / Love will ever shine more bright; / Therefore give us love.

Faith and hope and love we see / Joining hand in hand agree; / But the greatest of the three, / And the best, is love.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 530)

Love one another,—word of revelation; / Love frees from error's thrall,—Love is liberation. / Love's way the Master trod; / He that loves shall walk with God. / Love is the royal way.

Love knows no evil, neither shade of sadness; / Love casts out every fear, lifts the heart to gladness. / Love heals our every ill, / All the law does love fulfill. / Love is our answered prayer.

Love now is dawning over every nation; / Showing true brotherhood, publishing salvation, / Love bids all discord cease. / Conquering hate, enthroning peace, / Love, Love alone is power.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 179)

Selections from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal

Hymn No. 178
Love is life's true crown and glory, / Love the splendor of the light, / Truly is God's counsel gentle, / Truly all His ways are bright; / Jesus knew the law of kindness, / Healing mind and heart of blindness; / And in heavenly wisdom taught / Holy works of love he wrought.

Love, the Golden Rule of living, / Showeth forth the perfect Mind; / Love, our debt to God who gives it, / All compassion is, and kind; / Charity the law fulfilleth, / Mid the nations rancor stilleth; / Loving hearts in friendship blend, / One in Him, our heavenly Friend.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 178)

Hymn No. 530
Love is kind and suffers long, / Love is meek and thinks no wrong, / Love than death itself more strong; / Therefore give us love.

Prophecy will fade away, / Melting in the light of day; / Love will ever with us stay; / Therefore give us love.

Faith will vanish into sight; / Hope shall be fulfilled in light; / Love will ever shine more bright; / Therefore give us love.

Faith and hope and love we see / Joining hand in hand agree; / But the greatest of the three, / And the best, is love.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 530)

Hymn No. 179
Love one another,—word of revelation; / Love frees from error's thrall,—Love is liberation. / Love's way the Master trod; / He that loves shall walk with God. / Love is the royal way.

Love knows no evil, neither shade of sadness; / Love casts out every fear, lifts the heart to gladness. / Love heals our every ill, / All the law does love fulfill. / Love is our answered prayer.

Love now is dawning over every nation; / Showing true brotherhood, publishing salvation, / Love bids all discord cease. / Conquering hate, enthroning peace, / Love, Love alone is power.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 179)