Wednesday Bible Readings
February 12th, 2025
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)
For thus saith the LORD, ...As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; ...
(Isaiah 66:12 (to 1st ,), 13 (to ;))
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: ... I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
(Isaiah 45:2 (to 1st :), 5 2nd I)
... the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? … Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: ...When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. ...Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: ...
(Psalms 27:1 2nd the, 3 (to :), 10, 14 (to 2nd :))
And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: … And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ... turn not aside from following the LORD, … Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he hath done for you.
(I Samuel 12:19 (to :), 20 (to 1st :), 20 turn (to 2nd ,), 24)
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; ...
(Deuteronomy 33:27 (to ;))
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. ...Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, ... askest drink of me, ... for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. ... whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. … The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
(John 4:7, 9 (to 2nd ,), 9 askest (to 4th ,), 9 for, 10, 14 whosoever, 28, 29)
And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
(John 4:27)
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, … I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, ...And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
(John 10:7 (to 4th ,), 14 (to 2nd ,), 16)
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, ...
(Isaiah 55:1 (to 3rd ,))
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. ...Then saith he unto his disciples, ...
(Matthew 9:35, 37 (to 1st ,))
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. … Give to him that asketh thee, and … 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 5:6, 42 (to and), 44 do, 45)
Ye are the light of the world. … Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
(Matthew 5:14 (to 1st .), 16)
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; ...I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: ...I pray for them: ... for they are thine. And all mine are thine, ...
... Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. … Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; ... that they also may be one in us: ... and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
(John 17:1 (to ;), 6 (to :), 9 (to :), 9 4th for, 10 (to ,), 11 Holy, 20, 21 2nd that (to :), 23 2nd and)
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: … Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. .... God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
(I John 3:1 (to :); 4:11, 16 2nd God)“God is Love.” More than this we cannot ask, higher we cannot look, farther we cannot go.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 6:17–18)
Asking God to be God is a vain repetition. God is “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever;” ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 2:31–32 (to ;))
... the all-knowing, ... all-loving, ... Principle; Mind; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 587:5 2nd the (only, to 1st ,), 6 all-loving (only, to ,), 6–7 Principle (to 1st ;))
The creative Principle — Life, Truth, and Love ... There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 502:27–28 (to Love), 29–3)
God fashions all things, after His own likeness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 516:9 (only))
Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, — of Life, not of matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 289:31–32)
Man is idea, the image, of Love; ...He is ... the conscious identity of being as found in Science, in which man is the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which ... reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker. ...
Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 475:13–14 (to ;), 14 (only, to is), 16–20 the (to which), 22 reflects, 28 (only))
Man is the family name for all ideas, — the sons and daughters of God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 515:21–22 Man)
All nature teaches God’s love to man, but man cannot love God supremely and set his whole affections on spiritual things, while loving the material or trusting in it more than in the spiritual.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 326:8)
The supremacy of Spirit was the foundation on which Jesus built. His sublime summary points to the religion of Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 138:14)
Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love. With the affluence of Truth, he vanquished error.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 54:3–5)
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)
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. ... That which we desire and for which we ask, it is not always best for us to receive. In this case infinite Love will not grant the request.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 10:22–23, 28–31)
The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 322:26–29)
Divine Love corrects and governs man.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 6:3 (only))
Waking to Christ’s demand, mortals experience suffering. This causes them, even as drowning men, to make vigorous efforts to save themselves; and through Christ’s precious love these efforts are crowned with success.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 22:6)
Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, peace, and purity, which are the landmarks of Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 323:6–9)
In divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable as divine Principle and idea.
... God is the Principle of man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not mortal nor material. ...
Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 476:4, 9–11, 21–22)
Let us rid ourselves of the belief that man is separated from God, and obey only the divine Principle, Life and Love. ...
Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect but faintly the substance of Life or Mind. The denial of material selfhood aids the discernment of man’s spiritual and eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous knowledge gained from matter or through what are termed the material senses.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 91:5–7, 16)
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.” This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 304:5–14)
To be “with the Lord” is to be in obedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed by divine Love, — by Spirit, not by matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 14:9)
In divine Science, where prayers are mental, all may avail themselves of God as “a very present help in trouble.” Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 12:31)
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. ... to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 494:10–11, 13 to)
Universal Love is the divine way in Christian Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 266:18 Universal)
Brood o’er us with Thy shelt’ring wing, / ’Neath which our spirits blend / Like brother birds, that soar and sing, / And on the same branch bend. / The arrow that doth wound the dove / Darts not from those who watch and love.
If thou the bending reed wouldst break / By thought or word unkind, / Pray that his spirit you partake, / Who loved and healed mankind: / Seek holy thoughts and heavenly strain, / That make men one in love remain.
Learn, too, that wisdom’s rod is given / For faith to kiss, and know; / That greetings glorious from high heaven, / Whence joys supernal flow, / Come from that Love, divinely near, / Which chastens pride and earth-born fear,
Through God, who gave that word of might / Which swelled creation’s lay: / “Let there be light, and there was light.” / What chased the clouds away? / ’Twas Love whose finger traced aloud / A bow of promise on the cloud.
Thou to whose power our hope we give, / Free us from human strife. / Fed by Thy love divine we live, / For Love alone is Life; / And life most sweet, as heart to heart / Speaks kindly when we meet and part.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 30)
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)
Let there be peace on earth, / and let it begin with me. / Let there be peace on earth, / the peace that was meant to be. / With God our creator, we are family. / Let us walk with each other / in perfect harmony.
Let peace begin with me; let this / be the moment now. / With every step I take, let this / be my solemn vow: / To take each moment and live each / moment in peace eternally! / Let there be peace on earth, / and let it begin with me.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 521)
