Sunday, January 12th, 2025 Roundtable
Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Sacrament
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Morning Prayer
When you are in perplexity or doubt about some important question that must be decided, keep your mind still; cease thinking and wait, that the still, small voice may speak. No words may come to you; nevertheless you will have asked your question. Wait – when the moment arrives, the decision you will have.
Cultivate the habit of trust by daily repeating, ‘I am led by the spirit of infinite wisdom. I consecrate my will, my judgment, my desire, and all my faculty to the direction of the all-wise One. I shall hear. I shall know. I shall do right.’
When you have an earnest desire of the heart and there seems no way of having it fulfilled, cease thinking of the obstacles, of the impossibilities and declare with an earnest and definite faith: ‘In my Father’s sight there are no closed doors, no obstacles, there are no impossibilities. There is no malignant animal magnetism to prevent me from reflecting light. There is no self-mesmerism to hide me from the truth, or to hide the truth from me. There is no hypnotism, no mental malpractice to harm me, for divine Love surrounds me.
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 116 to 117
Daily Watch
286 — WATCH lest you fail to realize the great need of yielding to the divine will. A child is self-willed and feels that its rights are being invaded when its parents enforce discipline. Yet when it learns that an untrained mind is not competent to guide one aright, it is glad that its parents forced it to yield to their greater wisdom.
Mortal mind is incompetent to guide students aright. In humility it must learn to yield to the all-knowing divine Mind. Before it will do that it must be disciplined and improved, and one of the great agencies Mrs. Eddy has provided for this purpose is our Church Manual. Those who endeavor to follow its God-given rules and By-laws will find the human mind retreating under such a regime, in order to let divine Mind shine through.
Many of the experiences which we have which seem to baffle us, are really the wisdom of God manifested in our lives in a way that will best rule out the human mind. For instance, if we forget or neglect to make the proper effort to think right under a human sense of harmony, may it not be the part of wisdom for us to lose that doubtful and stupefying sense of ease, in order that we may have some incentive to drive us to make the effort to correct thought?
Discussion points
Prepared thought is the doorway through which revelation comes.
from Addresses, by Martha Wilcox, page 349
KJB: The Book That Changed the World (DVD)
Revelation 2:27
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Revelation 19:15
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
88th edition of the Church Manual
You have it as you live it — Attributed to Mary Baker Eddy
The best sermon ever preached is Truth practised and demonstrated by the destruction of sin, sickness, and death.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 201
The Closed Hand by Louise Knight Wheatley
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” — Christ Jesus (Matthew 5:8)
Serving and Safety by Harriet Kate Helman Gray
If living in disobedience to Him, we ought to feel no security, although God is good.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 19
Security for the claims of harmonious and eternal being is found only in divine Science.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 232