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The mountains, hills, and trees

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Announcements › Forums › God the only Cause and Creator — December 6th, 2020 › The mountains, hills, and trees

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  • December 2, 2020 at 11:02 am #11824
    JoanneF
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    “For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” (Isaiah 55:12)

    This is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. It was written about the Jewish people who were in bondage in Babylon and tells about their rescue by God and their return to Jerusalem. One Bible commentator calls it their trip home, and writes, “the mountains and hills may signify the kings of the nations, and the trees of the field the people rejoicing at their deliverance, as they pass along: it may well apply to all believers in whom a wonderful change is wrought.” When I first came to Christian Science and Plainfield Church, it was like a joyous returning home. The Contemporary English Version of the Bible translates this verse: “When you are set free, you will celebrate and travel home in peace. Mountains and hills will sing as you pass by, and trees will clap.”

    Another Bible commentary — to which I’ve added some definitions in italics — states: “the visual of the mountains and hills singing (celebrating and giving praise) and the trees clapping their hands sounds like an audience happy with results. The tops of the trees are being moved (stirred) with gentle (like God’s still, small voice) breezes of wind, they bow themselves (in humility), and the branches intertwining and clasping each other like hands and arms (in prayer, love and unity).” What a beautiful lesson from trees and mountains of how to celebrate God’s creation and Love!

    December 3, 2020 at 9:12 am #11829
    cthompson
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    Thank you Joanne. The mountains, hills and trees celebrating the goodness and possibilities of God’s highest idea, man, is so uplifting. Man viewed physically appears to be small and inferior to these grand ideas, but God declares the opposite. We must always remember this. Man, conscious possibly through prayer and living, is a grand, humble, reverent, effective and sovereign idea. Science and Health with key to the Scriptures makes this so much clearer.

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