Click this link to hear Craig read his Met. Then, scroll to and click on the black-bar LISTEN button. Practice Turning to God with Your Whole Heart. Metaphysical Application Ideas for the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson on: “Love” January 24—30, 2022 by Craig L. Ghislin, C.S. Godfrey, IL craig.ghislincs@icloud.com / (630) 830-8683; cell/text (630) 234-3987 […]
“… God’s will for us is freedom! “God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss.” (Science and Health, p. 481:3–4)
This is where we live, move and have our being. And since we are the reflection of God we reflect this infinity, freedom, harmony and boundless bliss. How about infinite understanding? Yes, each of God’s spiritual ideas possesses and reflects infinite understanding. How about boundless bliss? Yes, each of God’s spiritual ideas reflects and expresses boundless bliss! That means light, joy, freedom! Something we can all agree to wanting to have!
God is making us to know wisdom. God causes us to know wisdom! And we respond to that cause as we awaken to the spiritual understanding of being, of what is real and true. God causes us to know wisdom and we respond – everything in our being – responds to the Truth. Since we are spiritual, we respond to Spirit (like producing like). The effect is harmony, health, joy, movement, and holiness.
God is the Cause and the effect is wisdom, true knowledge, understanding – and, yes, freedom!
Truth is knowing itself – knowing its own infinitude!
Such things as stress, time-crunch, limited resources, inharmony, conflict, sickness, sin, and death have no place in Life! As we understand, and live in accord with, the true nature of Life, anything unlike eternal, unchanging, limitless Life must disappear from view! I may have mentioned this before, but a landmark healing for me happened many years ago when my children were young. I often felt pressured and stressed. At one point, I experienced heart difficulty. The healing came with the realization that rather than me struggling to live life, Life was living me! I have had no more heart problems.
To truly celebrate the work and life of Christ Jesus, we must do the works that he did, including drinking of his “cup”. This practice will revolutionize the world, and “bring in the millennium”— as Mary Baker Eddy tells us in the final citation of this lesson (citation S22/34:10). Our world could use some revolutionizing, purifying, love, healing…so let’s see how we can do this through drinking of Christ’s cup!
We can ALL hear the voice of God!… As we turn to God for renewal and uplift, we can strive for a clearer and clearer understanding of what God is and tune in to the voice of God. This week’s lesson shows an unfolding understanding of God’s power as illustrated by four Bible stories…
… it’s wonderful to know that the light of Christ is shining brightly and leading and guiding us. It is ever-present to shine in our thoughts, in our hearts, and in our communities now and for all time.
SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE TO SEE GOD’S SPIRITUAL, HARMONIOUS UNIVERSE!… We’ve got to hold on to the spiritual view as it emerges by understanding its source to be unchanging Mind! There is no room for decline in the realm of unfoldment and expansion. How freeing! How healing!
Mary Baker Eddy’s poem/hymn, “Mother’s Evening Prayer” (Mis. 389:13/Hymn 207 & 539) is a wonderful companion to this week’s lesson. … The stories and verses in this week’s Bible lesson perfectly illustrate this idea that “man’s extremity is God’s opportunity” (citation S17/266:13-15).
It may sound obvious but nothing caused or created God. That which is divine is self-existent. The word “self-existent” is worth pondering. God is that which is self-existent good. As I see it, understanding God and creation as self-existent necessitates overcoming the man-like view of God…
This week’s Bible Lesson has some valuable ideas on leadership — from good leaders that make poor moral choices, to awful leaders that turn a country in a downward trajectory, to excellent leaders such as Christ Jesus who heal and save. It shows the necessity of watching what is governing our thought; watching what is governing our actions.
The ideas in this Sentinel article True Leadership offer a great supplement to this week’s Bible Lesson. The author writes in part:…
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