Reply To: Growth by Subtraction

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Reply To: Growth by Subtraction

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February 22, 2019 at 11:16 am #8198

Florence

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Thanks for these posts. This is what Mrs. Eddy teaches about self abnegation being a rule in Science……..

A little less of self, every day, does much in revealing my Christ selfhood, with the Christ mind. The Christ Mind cannot be mesmerized, helps me live unselfishly, and do good, without selfish ambition but to honor God and bless mankind.

This is the striving to be better, with diligence, perseverance and persistence in daily “dying to self.” All the gospels and Paul talk about this imperative step: John 12:24, Colossians 3:5, Luke 14:33, 1 Peter 4:22. Luke 9:24, Eph. 4:22-23.

John 3:30: He must increase, but I must decrease.
Gal 5:24: And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
1 Cor. 15:31: I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Mrs. Eddy taught and explained self-abnegation so that we may resist the temptation of material-mindedness, know ourselves truly and find our God-given freedom. SH 266:16-19 Thus He teaches mortals to lay down their fleshliness and gain spirituality. This is done through self-abnegation. Universal Love is the divine way in Christian Science. And SH 568:30-32 Self-abnegation, by which we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, is a rule in Christian Science.

Doing this effects the death to all “the little foxes” as well as “the creeping things” and the false physical and emotional claims will have to yield to the supremacy of God/Spirit!