Such a beautiful lesson this week! The scripture from Revelation “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things” is profound to me. So often it is easy to think that our life, our circumstances, our physicality belong to us, to we ourselves; yet we read in 1 Corinthians: “know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” This is an amazing concept to me – we are perfect because we literally ARE His – we belong to Him! We are “bought with a price” – we have a debt to be paid; a debt to God, to Jesus, to Mrs Eddy and to all who have ever worked and prayed and glorified God on our behalf; throughout all time and all circumstances. We must do our part. For years I struggled with the concept of “trials”. I tried to understand from a merely “human justice” perspective why trials were given to us, why did some “suffer” and some not? The quote written by Mrs Eddy “trials are proof of Gods care” was at the time an enigma to me; outside my grasp of understanding. I (wrongly) reasoned that a trial could not be a good thing because it didn’t feel enjoyable to go through at the time. Had I known then, what I know today, I would have joyed in my trials and so bound myself to the Father as to not be distracted by what material belief would try to present. I thank dear Mrs Eddy for her discovery! Christian Science has taught me what Mrs Eddy meant about trials. It is to proclaim total fealty to God; to cling to God, to claim His might in times of seeming trial. This not only serves to lessen and shorten the trial itself, but so purifies our thought that we ascend in Grace. The trial ceases to exist when we learn this Truth. We go upward towards the “Great heart of Christ” as Mrs Eddy wrote. Isn’t this worth being faithful; no matter what the so-called “trail” appears to be? Mrs Eddy tells us that we each must understand God; “either here or hereafter” and that “Father Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation”. How precious it is to have our Heavenly parent!

Christian Science is a sublime Joy because by it, we have clear instructions to follow in order to build our relationship with God – an eternal relationship that is forever ours, and that shows us who we really are. Living according to Gods Law in Christian Science does bring about infinite blessings. Our blessings just drop down from heaven from “the Father of Lights”, right into the middle of what appears to be a trial – transforming the “bitter herbs” to the sunlight of Heaven! We have such great joy in Christian Science because we are learning that “nothing can separate us from the Love of our God”; as the apostle wrote. So, no matter what the trial may appear to be, we are so incredibly blessed by learning one of the most important lessons of Life – that we are not our own.

This week’s lesson plainly lays it out that God is our creator, our cause, our reason, our health, our Life, Truth and Love. He is eternally worthy and abundantly due our devoted Love, our adoring worship, our total obedience and fealty! Thankyou Plainfield Independent, just beautiful!