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“Exalting ordeal”

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Announcements › Forums › Doctrine of Atonement — April 18th, 2021 › “Exalting ordeal”

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  • April 15, 2021 at 7:33 am #12529
    JoanneF
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    “Remembering the sweat of agony which fell in holy benediction on the grass of Gethsemane, shall the humblest or mightiest disciple murmur when he drinks from the same cup, and think, or even wish, to escape the exalting ordeal of sin’s revenge on its destroyer?” (Science and Health 48:10-14)

    I am learning here in this church that every problem, or ordeal, that we are faced with — whether physical, financial, or emotional — is an opportunity for growing closer to God, a spiritual lesson to be learned. This was reinforced in the readings from our 4/14 Wednesday Service: “The heavenly intent of earth’s shadows is to chasten the affections, to rebuke human consciousness and turn it gladly from a material, false sense of life and happiness, to spiritual joy and true estimate of being.” (Retrospection and Introspection 21:17-20), and also by the practitioner’s testimony at that same service.

    If I hold to the Truth and what I’ve been taught here, it will exalt me — that is, heal me and lift me out of the problem, and up to God. This statement in Science and Health is so encouraging, because it is a promise from God, that any ordeal will, and must, exalt us, if we stay at-one with God and stick to the Truth we’ve been taught, . . . for Truth is always sin’s destroyer.

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