“Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth, and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone are real and harmonious.” (S&H 419:4-7)

I am reminded here of Hebrews 12:1 — “let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”
Last week’s Roundtable taught the difference between the absolute and the relative. The first step in “destroying the foe” (sin, error), is the absolute — to “leave the field to God,” by holding in thought “that God and His ideas are real and harmonious.” But the next, and more important step, is the relative — putting it into practice in my daily life. If pride is the foe that besets me, then I must consistently know that I am nothing apart from God, and always give Him the glory, recognition, and thanks for all good in my experience. If stubborn willfulness is the foe that besets me, then always ask God “what do You want me to do or say,” and then obey. If self-condemnation is the foe that besets me, then know that as God’s loved child I am never condemned by Him. And so on. Consistently doing this, is the only way I can “destroy the foe.”

Thank you for this Lesson-Sermon that touched my heart.