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October 13, 2017 at 7:24 am #5155

Florence

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Thank you for this post! SH 5 A great sacrifice of material things must precede this advanced spiritual understanding…..

This required sacrifice must include relinquishment of past material history, selfish indulgences, habits, material sense of sense of self. Some of these we hold on to so tightly as they keep us in bondage and increase our false sense of separation from God, the Love present, and what we most need.

Mrs. Eddy cautioned on page 242 of SH: Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, — self-will, self-justification, and self-love, — which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death.

Paul says in 1 Cor. 15:31…….I die daily; meaning the self renouncing (sacrificing self) he did each day as He wholeheartedly worked for God. And on page 238 of Misc. Mrs Eddy asks: “Have you renounced self?”