Wednesday Bible Readings
May 7th, 2025
From The Bible
CITATIONS:
Ps. 43:5 (to 2nd ?)
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? …
Ps. 130:7
Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
Ps. 37:1 (to ,), 5 (to 1st ;), 7 and (to :), 10 (to :), 11 (to ;)
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, ...
Commit thy way unto the Lord; ...
... and wait patiently for him: ...
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: ...
But the meek shall inherit the earth; ...Luke 2:25 there (to :), 27 (to 1st ,), 28–30
... there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: ...
And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, ...
Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, nowthou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Matt. 2:3 (to 2nd ,), 13 (to 1st And), 13 behold (to 7th ,), 13 for, 16 (to 1st ,), 16 2nd was (to 3rd ,), 16 2nd and (to 5th ,), 19, 20 (to :), 21 (to 1st ,), 23 (to :)
When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, ...
And ... behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, ... for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. ...
... ¶ Then Herod, ... was exceeding wroth, ... and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, ...
... ¶ But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: ...
And he arose, ...
And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: ...Luke 2:40
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Matt. 4:23
¶ And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Matt. 9:20–22
¶ And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
John 5:2 (to 1st ,), 2 having, 3 (to 1st ,), 5–7 (to :), 8, 9 (to :), 16
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, ... having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, ...
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: ...
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: ...
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.Luke 6:9
Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
Matt. 17:14, 15 (to 2nd :), 16, 17 (to 2nd ,), 17 2nd how, 18 (to ;), 18–20 3rd and
¶ And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: ...
And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, ... how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. And Jesus rebuked the devil; ... and the child was cured from that very hour. Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.Heb. 11:1, 3
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ...
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.Rom. 8:24, 25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Heb. 6:11, 19
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: ...
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;II Thess. 2:16, 17
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
SH 45:17
Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of human hope and faith, and through the revelation and demonstration of life in God, hath elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual idea of man and his divine Principle, Love.
SH 171:14
Jesus illustrated the divine Principle and the power of immortal Mind by healing sickness and sin and destroying the foundations of death.
SH 107:1
IN the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science. God had been graciously preparing me during many years for the reception of this final revelation of the absolute divine Principle of scientific mental healing.
SH 109:11–13 (to ,), 16–22
For three years after my discovery, I sought the solution of this problem of Mind-healing, searched the Scriptures and read little else, ... I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration.
SH 123:16, 30
The term Christian Science was introduced by the author to designate the scientific system of divine healing. ...
Christian Science differs from material science, but not on that account is it less scientific. On the contrary, Christian Science is pre-eminently scientific, being based on Truth, the Principle of all science.SH 487:19–20 (to 2nd ,), 25–26, 30 (only)
Christian evidence is founded on Science or demonstrable Truth, flowing from immortal Mind, ...
The Apostle James said, “Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.” ...
This faith relies upon an understood Principle.SH 145:31–2 (to 2nd .)
The theology of Christian Science includes healing the sick. Our Master’s first article of faith propounded to his students was healing, and he proved his faith by his works. The ancient Christians were healers.
SH 14:18–20 (to 3rd .)
Hence the hope of the promise Jesus bestows: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; . . . ...
SH 361:25–28
A germ of infinite Truth, though least in the kingdom of heaven, is the higher hope on earth, but it will be rejected and reviled until God prepares the soil for the seed.
SH 41:22–24
Jesus foresaw the reception Christian Science would have before it was understood, but this foreknowledge hindered him not.
SH 52:17
To-day, as of old, error and evil again make common cause against the exponents of truth.
SH 565:9–11 (to ,), 12–13 might
Led on by the grossest element of mortal mind, Herod decreed the death of every male child in order that the man Jesus, ... might never hold sway and deprive Herod of his crown.
SH 225:25
The despotic tendencies, inherent in mortal mind and always germinating in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out through the action of the divine Mind.
SH 262:27–28 (to 1st .), 30
The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man’s origin. ... Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence. Cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms.
SH 516:28–29 God
... God made man in His own image, to reflect the divine Spirit.
SH 252:15–20, 23–24 How, 31–4; 253:7 2nd I
The false evidence of material sense contrasts strikingly with the testimony of Spirit. Material sense lifts its voice with the arrogance of reality and says:
I am wholly dishonest, and no man knoweth it. I can cheat, lie, commit adultery, rob, murder, and I elude detection by smooth-tongued villainy. ... How sin succeeds, where the good purpose waits! ...
Spirit, bearing opposite testimony, saith:
I am Spirit. Man, whose senses are spiritual, is my likeness. He reflects the infinite understanding, for I am Infinity. The beauty of holiness, the perfection of being, imperishable glory, — all are Mine, for I am God. ... I am the substance of all, because I am that I am.SH 142:18–20
As in Jesus’ time, so to-day, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.
SH 252:7
When false human beliefs learn even a little of their own falsity, they begin to disappear. A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error, until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears, and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit, is understood and recognized as the true likeness of his Maker.
SH 40:8–9, 31–2 (to ;); 41:6
Divine Science adjusts the balance as Jesus adjusted it. ...
The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed, but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us; ... Like our Master, we must depart from material sense into the spiritual sense of being.SH 8:28–30
We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.
SH 301:6–12
To himself, mortal and material man seems to be substance, but his sense of substance involves error and therefore is material, temporal.
On the other hand, the immortal, spiritual man is really substantial, and reflects the eternal substance, or Spirit, which mortals hope for.SH 468:17–22 Substance
... Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are substance, as the Scriptures use this word in Hebrews: “The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance.
SH 12:1–2 (to ?), 10–11 (to ,)
“The prayer of faith shall save the sick,” says the Scripture. What is this healing prayer? ... It is neither Science nor Truth which acts through blind belief, ...
SH 16:2–5
The highest prayer is not one of faith merely; it is demonstration. Such prayer heals sickness, and must destroy sin and death.
SH 149:28–29; 150:4–5 (to 2nd ,), 10 but
Whatever guides thought spiritually benefits mind and body. ...
To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demonstrated as an immanent, eternal Science, ... but the mission of Christian Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration, is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin, — to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world.SH 253:9–11 (to no), 13–14 able
I hope, dear reader, I am leading you into the understanding of your divine rights, your heaven-bestowed harmony, — that, as you read, you see there is no ... able to make you sick or sinful; and I hope that you are conquering this false sense.
SH 152:5–7 (to 2nd ,)
The author has endeavored to make this book the Æsculapius of mind as well as of body, that it may give hope to the sick and heal them, ...
SH xii:23–24 (to 1st all), 26 she
In the spirit of Christ’s charity, — as one who “hopeth all ... she commits these pages to honest seekers for Truth.
Hymn. 437
All my hope on God is founded; / Day by day my trust is new. / Through the trials of life He guides me, / Only good and only true. / God alone, dearly known, / Calls my heart to be His own.
Earthly treasures, pride and glory, / Human power and worldly trust, / Though with care and toil are builded, / In the end will fall to dust. / But God’s power, hour by hour, / Is my temple and my tower.
Daily does th’almighty Giver / Bounteous gifts on us bestow. / Love’s desire our soul delighteth, / Joy attends us where we go. / Blessings stand at God’s hand, / Healing flows at Love’s command.
Now from man to God eternal / Endless thanks and praise be sung. / Hearts made new are anthems raising / Through the love of Christ, His Son. / Hear God’s call, one and all, / We who follow shall not fall.Words: Joachim Neander; tr. Robert Bridges; adapt. Fenella Bennetts, alt.
Music: Herbert Howells
Hymn. 221
O Jesus, our dear Master, / Thy works, now understood, / Reveal their full effulgence / Through love and brotherhood. / Today Christ’s precious Science / Thy healing power makes plain: / With joy may all obey thee / And cast out sin and pain.
The Christ, eternal manhood, / As God’s own Son beloved, / A tender ever-presence / Within each heart is proved. / O God, our Father-Mother, / Thy name we see expressed / By man, who in Thy Science / Is perfect, holy, blessed.
O Science, God-sent message / To tired humanity, / Thou art Love’s revelation / Of Truth that makes us free. / Thy kingdom, God, within us / Shows forth Love’s sweet control. / God’s idea, man, rejoices; / He knows the reign of Soul.Words: Margaret Glenn Matters
Music: Justin H. Knecht
Hymn. 539
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power; / O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour, / Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight! / Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye / Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall: / His habitation high is here, and nigh, / His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear, / For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! / Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear / No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing; / In that sweet secret of the narrow way, / Seeking and finding, with the angels sing: / “Lo, I am with you alway,”—watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain; / No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain, / And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.Words: Mary Baker Eddy
Music: Lisa Redfern; arr. CSPS
