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A Blessing and a Curse

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Announcements › Forums › Life – July 21st, 2019 › A Blessing and a Curse

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  • July 15, 2019 at 5:01 am #9021
    JoanneF
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    “Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.”

    This is cause for rejoicing. It is an assurance that God’s Law of divine Justice is in full and complete operation, and that “the wicked shall not go unpunished” –any evil belief shall not escape this divine Law.

    “Everything that announces itself as unlike good is instantly under the law which banishes it. ” — Laura Sargent

    July 16, 2019 at 8:33 am #9025
    Michael Pupko
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    In working at correcting my way of thinking I have found great help from this Bible verse which ties in with your post, thank you very much:

    Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

    July 18, 2019 at 7:11 am #9034
    Florence
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    Thanks for these posts. I love the simplicity of this caution; obey and do as God wants and be blessed or willingly keep friendship with wickedness and be cursed(which from my understanding of Science means to me,let wickedness as it destroys itself take you along with it due to your attachment to it). Thus we should all strive towards righteousness…

    A couple of citations from the Bible and Science and Health completely destroy evil’s seeming victory over Truth:

    Psalm 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
    22 The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

    From Science and Health, p.239 : The wicked man is not the ruler of his upright neighbor. Let it be understood that success in error is defeat in Truth. The watchword of Christian Science is Scriptural: “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.”
    Many Bible stories affirm the victory of those who walked humbly with their God trusting all to Him and doing as He directs.From Divinity Course and General Collectanea, The Bluebook pg 228 :

    Never resent a wound from anyone, but always leave it to God to avenge and heal. He will rightly reward; you cannot. Forgiveness is forgetfulness of sin, disease and all error in others and in ourselves. No wrong is forgiven until it is forgotten. If this is not done, it works like remembering disease; it makes you a sinner; it grows chronic and incurable. If we do not do this, it does us more harm than our enemies.

    I love the fact that when we leave things to God after doing what is only ours to do, there is healing!

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