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By Lindsey Biggs, C.S., Maryland Heights, Missouri
Discover more about the spiritual foundation that our rock, Truth, gives us! By drawing closer to the Truth, we are equipped with spiritual clarity, readiness, and discernment. We are able to be a healer in the midst of conflict, to allay fear in ourselves and others, and to keep our thought close to God. We can feel the stability of our Rock, Truth, governing our experience as we commune with God on a daily basis and put God’s law into practice in our lives, churches, camp, schools, and home.
SEE THE LIFE OF CHRIST COME TO LIGHT THROUGH DEVOTION & DEMONSTRATION!
Metaphysical Application Ideas for The Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson on “Life” for July 12 – July 18, 2021 by Kathy Fitzer
Our lesson this week gives us some healing ideas about how we can live our lives more deeply and sincerely through Christ healing. As expressions of God’s very being, we are each capable of this kind of simple, sincere worship that heals and blesses all around us. This is how we partake in the communion that Christ Jesus shared with his disciples in the form of bread and wine the night before his crucifixion. He did this again after his resurrection, as bread (with fish) on the shores of the sea where he fed his disciples and encouraged them to sincerely devote themselves to the cause of Christian healing, rather than the occupation of fishing. No matter our work, whether we are campers, counselors, students, or occupied in any one of the multitudes of adult careers and jobs, or in our retirement, we can “cast our nets on the right side” as Jesus encouraged, and bring in a harvest of blessing for ourselves and those around us. Our “catch” might be simply offering an encouraging word (with sincerity!), or it may be a healing prayer to support someone in need. Our childlike reliance on the Truth that is at the center of Christ healing is what does the healing. So, we need not have fear that we can “fail” in our endeavors.
A young camper’s question has led me to approach this week’s Bible Lesson on “God” as an opportunity to delve even deeper into the incorporeality of divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love. Learning from Mary Baker Eddy’s example, this Met will sometimes make word substitutions with the intention of pondering God with a renewed sense of Truth’s incorporeality.
By John & Lindsey Biggs, C.S., St. Louis, Missouri
This week’s Bible Lesson contains wonderful ideas on how we perceive the Word of God – an understanding already written on the hearts of every man, woman, and child… Each section contains ways that this understanding of our relationship with God is brought forth through the revelation of Christian Science. Enjoy digging in and finding out more!
This Lesson brings out that it is God’s nature to bless mankind. But, let’s face it … sometimes that seems a little hard to believe. There are times when just the opposite seems to be going on … life can feel more like a curse than a blessing. The key is to keep thought aligned with God so that His blessings become apparent. Regardless of circumstances, we can be confident that we will feel and experience this blessing and blessedness as we bless (praise and acknowledge) God, and are obedient to God’s commands. When thought wanders from God it can feel like we’ve been excluded from God’s goodness and been dealt a hand of misfortune. But, turning back to God, becoming aligned with divine Mind, the blessings will again become visible. More about that in the second section.
You, and we, as God’s beloved creation, are safe, right now and always.
Metaphysical application ideas for the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson on: “God the Preserver of Man” for Sunday, June 13, 2021 by Kerry Jenkins C.S.
As I reason through the beginninglessness of Love, Mind, Life and light, my inspiration feels refreshed and grounded. And, for me, gaining inspiration from beginninglessness and the self-existence of Love, Mind, Life and light is the purpose of this week’s Bible Lesson on “God the Only Cause and Creator.” This Lesson grounds us in the foundational principle of eternality and begininglessness. God did not start consciousness, love, and so forth. God is, by definition, that which has no beginning. God is Love, Mind, Life, and the source and cause of all light, which has no beginning. And, as I see it, our task is to understand the eternality—beginninglessness—of God with more and more clarity, and to be active witnesses for the beginningless reality of good and the unfoldment of divine creation.
This lesson helps to clarify different powers; but ultimately, just like a bank teller who can distinguish counterfeit currency simply by knowing confidently what the real currency looks like, we can know counterfeit powers simply by knowing and feeling with confidence what real spiritual power looks like. So, as you go through the lesson this week, I encourage each of you to really pull out those spiritual ideas that firmly state that God is all-powerful, that God is in control.
Also, I really like this lesson as a primer to jumpstart your daily protective work.
“Turn On, Tune In, and Experience God!”
Here we see that turning on and tuning in to God bring results. Like the rising of the sun, it’s inevitable and unstoppable. When we’re looking to God, we’ll never run dry of inspiration, or any needful thing. Tuning in to God as our Source, we will always be filled.
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