“I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.” Isaiah 43
“Savior: From sozo; a deliverer, i.e. God or Christ — saviour.” (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance)
“SALVATION. Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed.” (Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, page 593)
The citation from Isaiah in our Lesson stood out to me today after reading the Tuesday Unity Watch. It included this citation and the last line read, ” Let us gather together tomorrow as His faithful servants and witnesses to glorify His name and give gratitude for the abundance, protection, and purpose that are found only in Christian Science, so that all will know the healing and comfort of Christ, Truth!”
We are warned, “And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” (Matthew 24)
We are instructed, “We must forsake the foundation of material systems, however time-honored, if we would gain the Christ as our only Saviour.” (Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, page 326)
With all the talk about how to “save” this Nation and other Nations from especially “plagues” it seems that we better head these warnings from Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy. Especially since material “systems” are Godless. To me the deception part would mean that it will appear “good, safe and perhaps attractive.” I find Mrs. Eddy’s statement a “plumb-line” for this salvation. It does not involve “material systems.” We have been instructed at Plainfield that material systems will fail and that, “Security for the claims of harmonious and eternal being is found only in divine Science.”