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08/24/2015 07:27

Not only seek, but strive

"Students of Christian Science...must not only seek, but strive, to enter the narrow path of Life."
Webster (1828) defines "seek" -- to try, to go in search of, to ask for; and "strive" -- to labor hard, to struggle. So it's more than just asking God for something, whether it be peace, or forgiveness, or understanding.

This week's lesson-sermon was a hard one for me, a bitter pill to swallow. It forced me to search the depths of my thinking, and face the Judas traits of personal sense, ingratitude, and unwatchfulness that were hidden deep in my thinking. As I honestly acknowledge them, and repent, and strive to reform, I will feel more and more God's merciful love.

I am so very grateful for these Lesson-Sermons, and for God's unbounded love in bringing me back to Plainfield Church.


Joanne

 
chardelle

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08/24/2015 08:49

Re: Not only seek, but strive

Take heart, you are not alone. "With tender care, God holds al His creation in changeless harmony" V K Seymer

Edited by chardelle - 08/24/2015 08:49




 
Fairlie

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08/25/2015 12:22

Re: Not only seek, but strive

So true! I'm very grateful for Mrs. Eddy's strong statements about the letter versus the spirit: In S and H #5: "Students of Christian Science, who start with its letter and think to succeed without the spirit will either make shipwreck of their faith or be turned sadly awry." In her chapter on Christian Science Practice, she writes: " If hypocrisy, stolidity, inhumanity, or vice finds its way into the chambers of disease through the would-be healer, it would, if it were possible, convert into a den of thieves the temple of the Holy Ghost, - the patient's spiritual power to resuscitate himself." I have to keep reminding myself of "the fruits of the Spirit," so well put by Paul in Galatians 5: "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance."