Wednesday Readings for February 22nd, 2023
From The Bible
Gen. 1:31 (to 1st .)
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. ...
Ps. 100:3 (to ;), 4 be, 5
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; ...
... be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.Ps. 138:7 (to :), 7 and
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: ... and thy right hand shall save me.
Ps. 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Ps. 120:1
In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.
II Kings 20:5 Thus (to 3rd ,), 5 I (to 2nd :)
... Thus saith the Lord, ... I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: ...
Isa. 40:26, 28 (to 2nd ?), 29, 31
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he isstrong in power; not one faileth. ...
... ¶ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? ...
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. ...
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.John 12:44 (to 1st ,), 46
¶ Jesus cried and said, ...
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.Luke 5:17 (to 3rd ,), 18 (to :), 19–21 (to 2nd ,), 21 2nd Who, 22 (to 2nd ,), 23, 24 (to 4th ,), 25 (to 1st ,), 25 3rd and
And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, ...
... ¶ And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: ...
And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, ... Who can forgive sins, but God alone? But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, ...
Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, ...
And immediately he rose up before them, ... and departed to his own house, glorifying God.Luke 6:39, 41 why
And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? ...
... why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?Matt. 13:10, 11 (to 1st ,), 13–15 because
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, ...
... because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.Matt. 10:1, 5 and (to 3rd ,), 8 (to :)
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. ...
... and commanded them, saying, ...
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: ...Acts 20:7 (to 3rd ,), 7 2nd and, 9 (to :), 9 fell, 10, 12
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ... and continued his speech until midnight. ...
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: ... fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. ...
And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.Ps. 103:2–4
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
I John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Col. 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Col. 3:4
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Col. 3:3 (to For), 3 your
For ... your life is hid with Christ in God.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES by MARY BAKER EDDY
SH vii:13–18
The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith.
SH 223:14–24
The question, “What is Truth,” convulses the world. Many are ready to meet this inquiry with the assurance which comes of understanding; but more are
blinded by their old illusions, and try to “give it pause.” “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
The efforts of error to answer this question by some ology are vain. Spiritual rationality and free thought accompany approaching Science, and cannot be put down. They will emancipate humanity, and supplant unscientific means and so-called laws.SH 150:26
The doctrine that man's harmony is governed by physical conditions all his earthly days, and that he is then thrust out of his own body by the operation of matter, — even the doctrine of the superiority of matter over Mind, — is fading out.
SH 13:25–29
Because of human ignorance of the divine Principle, Love, the Father of all is represented as a corporeal creator; hence men recognize themselves as merely physical, and are ignorant of man as God's image or reflection and of man's eternal incorporeal existence.
SH 476:9–11; 477:9–13 To
God is the Principle of
man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not mortal nor material. ...
... To the five corporeal senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but Christian Science reveals man as the idea ofGod, and declares the corporeal senses to be mortal and erring illusions.
SH 69:13
Spiritually to understand that there is but one creator, God, unfolds all creation, confirms the Scriptures, brings the sweet assurance of no parting, no pain, and of man deathless and perfect and eternal.
SH 583:20–22 (to 1st ;), 24 God
Creator. Spirit; Mind; intelligence; the animating divine Principle of all that is real and good; self-existent Life, Truth, and Love; ... God, who made all that was made and could not create an atom or an element the opposite of Himself.
SH 140:25–27
The Christian Science God is universal, eternal
, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death.
SH vii:27–4
Since the author's discovery of the might of Truth in the treatment of disease as well as of sin, her system has been fully tested and has not been found wanting; but to reach the heights of Christian Science, man must live in obedience to its divine Principle.
SH viii:12–13 (to ,)
The question, What is Truth, is answered by demonstration, ...
SH x:22–23, 25–27; xi:1–5 (to ,), 9
The divine Principle of healing is proved in the personal experience of any sincere seeker of Truth. ... The unbiased Christian thought is soonest touched by Truth, and convinced of it. ...
Many imagine that the phenomena of physical healing in Christian Science present only a phase of the action of the human mind, which action in some unexplained way results in the cure of disease. On the contrary, ...
The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or “God with us,” — a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense], / And recovering of sight to the blind, / To set at liberty them that are bruised.SH 46:7
The divine
Spirit, which identified Jesus thus centuries ago, has spoken through the inspired Word and will speak through it in every age and clime. It is revealed to the receptive heart, and is again seen casting out evil and healing the sick.
SH 244:10 Paul; 246:1–5, 17–23 Chronological
... Paul writes: “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” ...
... Man is not a pendulum, swinging between evil and good, joy and sorrow, sickness and health, life and death.Life and its faculties are not measured by calendars. ...
... Chronological data are no part of the vast forever. Time-tables of birth and death are so many conspiracies against manhood andwomanhood. Except for the error of measuring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise.
SH 243:27, 32–3
Truth, Life, and Love are a law
of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.
... Inasmuch as God is good and the fount of all being, He does not produce moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error.SH 210:11
Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever manifested through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation. Jesus healed sickness and sin by one and the same metaphysical process.
SH 38:26–30
To those buried in the belief of sin and self, living only for pleasure or the gratification of the senses, he said in substance: Having eyes ye see not, and having ears ye hear not; lest ye should understand and be converted, and I might heal you.
SH 486:23–26
Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immortality are in Spirit and understanding, not in
matter, — hence their permanence.
SH 218:27–29; 219:11–15
The Scriptures say, “They that wait upon the Lord . . . shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” ...
... Not muscles, nerves, nor bones, but mortal mind makes the whole body “sick, and the whole heart faint;” whereas divine Mind heals.
When this is understood, we shall never affirm concerning the body what we do not wish to have manifested.SH 52:19–23
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.
SH 453:29–30
A Christian Scientist's medicine is Mind, the divine Truth that makes man free.
SH 393:8–10 (to 2nd .), 12
Mind is the master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. ... Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man.
SH 246:27–28 (to 1st .), 29
Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin the demonstration thereof. ... Let us then shape our views of existence into
loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight.
SH 381:17
In infinite Life and Love there is no sickness, sin, nor death, and the Scriptures declare that we live, move, and have our being in the infinite God.
SH 325:10–18 (to 2nd ,)
In Colossians (iii. 4) Paul writes: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [be manifested], then shall ye also appear [be manifested] with him in glory.”
When spiritual being is understood in all its perfection, continuity, and might, then shall man be found in God's image. The absolute meaning of the apostolic words is this: Then shall man be found, in His likeness, perfect as the Father, indestructible in Life, “hid with Christ in God,” — with Truth in divine Love, ...
Christian Science Hymnals
Hymn. 201
O do not bar your mind / Against the light of good; / But open wide, let in the Word, / And Truth will be your food.
Truth will from error free / Your long enslaved mind, / And bring the light of liberty / Where it shall be enshrined.
Hid treasures it reveals / To all who know its power; / And all who will may light receive / In this most gracious hour.
Then open wide your heart / To Truth and Light and Love; / You then shall know your life is hid / With Christ in God above.Words: Charles Parsons
Music: Henry J. Gauntlett
Hymn. 299
Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound? / Felt ye the power of the Word? / 'Twas the Truth that made us free, / And was found by you and me / In the life and the love of our Lord.
Mourner, it calls you,—“Come to my bosom, / Love wipes your tears all away, / And will lift the shade of gloom, / And for you make radiant room / Midst the glories of one endless day.”
Sinner, it calls you,—“Come to this fountain, / Cleanse the foul senses within; / 'Tis the Spirit that makes pure, / That exalts thee, and will cure / All thy sorrow and sickness and sin.”
Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless, / Life of all being divine: / Thou the Christ, and not the creed; / Thou the Truth in thought and deed; / Thou the water, the bread, and the wine.Words: Mary Baker Eddy
Music: Walter E. Young
Hymn. 565
Rise up and walk, take up your bed. / With these few words the sickness fled. / Stretch forth your hand. Receive your sight. / Jesus' commands reveal God's might. / You are God's purpose, His great design. / Beautiful, blameless, His child divine. / Holding your thought to the good and the true, / Spirit will form you anew.
REFRAIN / Rise up and walk! God made you free, / Born of His liberty. / Carefree and strong, you are His song, / Perfect for all to see. / Mountains and seas, great rising trees, / Echo the joyous song: / Heaven is here, harmony's bliss / To everyone belongs.
Cleanse the lepers, heal the sick. / Cast out demons. Raise the dead. / Truth is revealed in every place, / Throughout all time, throughout all space. / Right in this moment, doing God's will / “These works shall you do, and greater still.” / Standing triumphant upon holy ground, / Songs of the angels resound. / / REFRAINWords: Peter B. Allen
Music: Peter B. Allen
