Wednesday Bible Readings
March 12th, 2025
From The Bible
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings….For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
(Psalms 36:7, 9)
God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: ...
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
(Exodus 13:18 God (to :), 21)
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, ...Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, ...Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
(Nehemiah 9:15 (to 2nd ,), 20 (to 1st ,), 21)
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. ...For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: ...
(Isaiah 9:2, 6 (to 2nd :))
In the beginning was the Word, ... and the Word was God. ...In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ...That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
(John 1:1 (to 1st ,), 1 2nd and, 4, 5, 9)
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
(John 8:12)
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, ... and from beyond Jordan.
(Matthew 4:24, 25 (to 2nd ,), 25 5th and)
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. ...While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. ...Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; ...
(John 6:28, 29; 12:36 (to 1st .); 14:12 (to 2nd ;))
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
(John 10:6)
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, ... before him shall be gathered all nations: … And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: ... I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? … And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, ...For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: ... sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, ... or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
(Matthew 25:31 (to 1st ,), 32 before (to 1st :), 33–35, 36–38 I (to 1st ?), 40, 41 (to 4th ,), 42, 43 (to 1st :), 43 sick, 44 (to 5th ,), 44 4th or, 45)
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. ... The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. ...He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, ... If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
(I John 2:1 (to .), 7 2nd The, 9, 10 (to ,), 24 If, 25)
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, ...For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
(Proverbs 6:20, 21 (to ,), 23)
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
(I Thessalonians 5:5)
Then said Jesus unto them again, ...
(John 10:7 (to 1st ,))
Ye are the salt of the earth: … 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 5:13 (to :), 14 (to 1st .), 16)
DAY. The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love. ... The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God’s day, and “there shall be no night there.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 584:1, 4)
The Bible declares: “All things were made by Him [the divine Word]; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” This is the eternal verity of divine Science. ... Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing else. ...Material sense never helps mortals to understand Spirit, God. Through spiritual sense only, man comprehends and loves Deity.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 480:26–29; 481:2–3, 7–9)
Light is a symbol of Mind, of Life, Truth, and Love, and not a vitalizing property of matter. Science reveals only one Mind, and this one shining by its own light and governing the universe, including man, in perfect harmony.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 510:27–1)
As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness:
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness.
For with Thee is the fountain of life;
In Thy light shall we see light.The brain can give no idea of God’s man. It can take no cognizance of Mind. Matter is not the organ of infinite Mind. As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God, man in God’s likeness will appear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness no material element. As a material, theoretical life-basis is found to be a misapprehension of existence, the spiritual and divine Principle of man dawns upon human thought, ... to the spiritual sense of being and of what Life includes. Thus the whole earth will be transformed by Truth on its pinions of light, chasing away the darkness of error.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 190:28–10 (to ,); 191:12 2nd to)
Only by losing the false sense of Soul can we gain the eternal unfolding of Life as immortality brought to light.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 335:22)
In the illusion of life that is here to-day and gone to-morrow, man would be wholly mortal, were it not that Love, the divine Principle that obtains in divine Science, destroys all error and brings immortality to light.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 305:22–27)
Man, being immortal, has a perfect indestructible life. … Mind, supreme over all its formations and governing them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas, the life and light of all its own vast creation; and man is tributary to divine Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 209:1–2, 5–8)
This spiritualization of thought lets in the light, and brings the divine Mind, Life not death, into your consciousness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 407:26)
The Revelator symbolizes Spirit by the sun. ... The light portrayed is really neither solar nor lunar, but spiritual Life, which is “the light of men.” ... of the Fourth Gospel it is written, “There was a man sent from God . . . to bear witness of that Light.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 561:25–26, 27–29, 30 of)
JESUS. The highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing to light man’s immortality.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 589:16)
The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus implied in his own statements: “I am the way, the truth, and the life;” “I and my Father are one.” This Christ, or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which animated him. Divine Truth, Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness, and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 26:10)
He knew that matter had no life and that real Life is God; therefore he could no more be separated from his spiritual Life than God could be extinguished. His consummate example was for the salvation of us all, but only through doing the works which he did and taught others to do. His purpose in healing was not alone to restore health, but to demonstrate his divine Principle.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 51:15–23)
From the infinite One in Christian Science comes one Principle and its infinite idea, and with this infinitude come spiritual rules, laws, and their demonstration, which, like the great Giver, are “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever;” ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 112:16–20 (to ;))
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.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. xi:9)
If we would open their prison doors for the sick, we must first learn to bind up the broken-hearted.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 366:30–31)
If we turn away from the poor, we are not ready to receive the reward of Him who blesses the poor. … We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, ... If selfishness has given place to kindness, we shall regard our neighbor unselfishly, and bless them that curse us; but we shall never meet this great duty simply by asking that it may be done. There is a cross to be taken up before we can enjoy the fruition of our hope and faith.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 8:22–24, 28–29 (to ,); 9:11)
Step by step will those who trust Him find that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 444:10)
The harmony and immortality of man are intact. We should look away from the opposite supposition that man is created materially, and turn our gaze to the spiritual record of creation, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 521:12–15 (to ,))
When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought. 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. 495:14)
Truth and Love enlighten the understanding, in whose “light shall we see light;” and this illumination is reflected spiritually by all who walk in the light and turn away from a false material sense.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 510:9)
Whatever is governed by God, is never for an instant deprived of the light and might of intelligence and Life.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 215:12)
A Christian Scientist occupies the place at this period of which Jesus spoke to his disciples, when he said: “Ye are the salt of the earth.” “Ye are the light of the world. ... Let us watch, work, and pray that this salt lose not its saltness, and that this light be not hid, but radiate and glow into noontide glory.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 367:17–20, 21)Who was that man in Galilee, / Healing and teaching beside the sea? / What was the power that made him strong? / How can we learn to sing his song?
He told us, / I am the light of the world, / I am the light of the world, / So follow me and shine out / For I am the light of the world!
Why are we here, and who are we? / What is his purpose for you and me? / Our little light seems small and dim / Next to the blaze that comes from him!
He told us, / You are the salt of the earth, / You are the light of the world. / So follow me and shine out / For you are the light of the world!
Christ is the light with which we shine, / Lit from within by this love divine. / Step out with courage, dare to go, / Give from the heart the love you know.
He told us, / We are the salt of the earth, / We are the light of the world. / We follow him and shine out / For Christ is the light of the world!
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 600)
Love divine, Your healing presence / Lifts us to the holy place, / Where we see Your whole creation / Filled with light and crowned with grace. / We Your children know Your glory, / See Your power from above / Sweep away the shade of darkness / With the healing tide of love.
Humble hearts accept Your blessing, / Turn from sorrow, want, and sin, / Turn the page, rewrite that story, / As the Christ is welcomed in. / Now we know our true relation, / Perfect God and perfect child, / We can live in joy and freedom, / Loved, and pure, and undefiled.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 529)
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. 453)
