And now…you and I embrace the Bible Lesson for this week and we expect new, glorious adventures! Or as this year’s CedarS Metaphysical Theme quotes from Revelation, “For all things are become new!” (21:5)

Are sin, disease, and death real? What a question to consider! Ask the world. Ask the billions of earth’s residents, ask the university faculties, the staff of health clinics, heads of the great pharmaceutical companies, workers in laboratories and research facilities, and yes even ask in most seminaries. Ask most people in the world and your answer will certainly be, “Yes. Sin, disease and death are real!” But if you ask most people that are studying this week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson and your answer will probably be, “No. Sin, disease, and death are not real.”

This Lesson establishes a clear understanding of the relationship of God and man. This lesson identifies clearly that man is the child of God, an idea of God, the reflection of God. And the lesson also clearly separates the mortal concept of man from the immortal, spiritual concept of man.

It could very easily be argued that the very essence, the core, the main ingredient of Jesus message to all mankind in all time is simply the fact, that God, Spirit is the one true Father of all. God, Spirit is not just Jesus’ Father, but yours and mine also. That we are His children. This is precisely what this week’s Bible Lesson reveals.

This lesson is filled with beautiful examples of how we can pray continually and reap great benefits from that prayer. Continual, unceasing prayer does make our world go round!

We no longer will be held hostage to a material world’s view of cause and creator. We will begin to practically accept what God’s Truth is regarding life and its prospects! The norm will not be babies dying, old folks struggling. We will expect to live as long as trees and God will answer, we will not work in vain, we will not be doomed to misfortune. God will answer our prayers even before we call. And ultimately “no one will be hurt or destroyed on my holy mountain. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Have you ever visited a fun house? The kind of place you find at a fair or carnival? In particular the place where they have distortion mirrors. What fun it is to see you self in these mirrors that make you look very tall and skinny or very short and fat. It is you standing in front of the mirror, but the image you see is very far from the accurate reflection of what you look like, simply because the mirrors are made to distort or change in a weird way the object in front of the mirror. Everyone laughs like crazy as each looks at themselves and sees in the mirror a hilarious form!

If we decided that we wanted to look at God’s work, God’s creation wouldn’t we want to look at or observe an accurate portrayal of what God has actually made? The Bible Lesson this week begins with an invitation to take a look at what God has made.