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Living our oneness with God
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Bible
  1. Ps. 139:1-10, 23, 24

    1O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

    2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

    3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

    4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

    5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

    6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

    7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

    8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

    9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

    10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

    ... 23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

    24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

  2. Eph. 2:13 now, 14, 18-22

    now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

    14For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

    ... 18For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

    19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

    20And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

    21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

    22In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

  3. II Cor. 5:1-8 we, 16-21

    we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

    2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

    3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

    4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

    5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

    6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

    7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

    8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

    ... 16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

    17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

    18And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

    19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

    20Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

    21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

  4. II Cor. 1:21, 22

    21Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

    22Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

  5. I John 4:9, 11-13

    9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

    ... 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

    12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

    13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

  6. Phil. 2:1, 2, 5

    1If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

    2Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

    ... 5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

  7. Col. 3:4, 15

    4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

    ... 15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

  8. Col. 1:28 2nd we

    we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:


Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
  1. SH 325:10

        In Colossians (iii. 4) Paul writes: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [be manifested], then shall ye also 12Indestructible beingappear [be manifested] with him in glory.” When spiritual being is understood in all its perfection, continuity, and might, then shall man be found 15in God’s image. The absolute meaning of the apostolic words is this: Then shall man be found, in His likeness, perfect as the Father, indestructible in Life, “hid with 18Christ in God,” — with Truth in divine Love, where human sense hath not seen man.

  2. SH 361:16

    As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God 18and man, Father and son, are one in being. The Scrip-ture reads: “For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.”

  3. SH 381:17

    In infinite Life and Love there is no sickness, sin, nor 18death, and the Scriptures declare that we live, move, and have our being in the infinite God.

  4. SH 242:9

        There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no The one only wayother reality — to have no other conscious-12ness of life — than good, God and His reflec-tion, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses.

  5. SH 258:31-14

        Through spiritual sense you can discern the heart of divinity, and thus begin to comprehend in Science the 259 259:1generic term man. Man is not absorbed in Deity, and God’s man discernedman cannot lose his individuality, for he re-3flects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, soli-tary idea, for he represents infinite Mind, the sum of all substance.

    6    In divine Science, man is the true image of God. The divine nature was best expressed in Christ Jesus, who threw upon mortals the truer reflection of God and lifted 9their lives higher than their poor thought-models would allow, — thoughts which presented man as fallen, sick, sinning, and dying. The Christlike understanding of 12scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Prin-ciple and idea, — perfect God and perfect man, — as the basis of thought and demonstration.

  6. SH 276:4-9

    When the divine precepts are understood, they unfold the foundation of fellowship, 6in which one mind is not at war with another, but all have one Spirit, God, one intelligent source, in accordance with the Scriptural command: “Let this Mind be in you, 9which was also in Christ Jesus.”

  7. SH 445:5

    No 6hypothesis as to the existence of another power should interpose a doubt or fear to hinder the demonstration of Christian Science. Unfold the latent energies and capac-9ities for good in your pupil. Teach the great possibilities of man endued with divine Science. Teach the dangerous possibility of dwarfing the spiritual understanding and 12demonstration of Truth by sin, or by recourse to material means for healing. Teach the meekness and might of life “hid with Christ in God,” and there will be no desire for 15other healing methods. You render the divine law of healing obscure and void, when you weigh the human in the scale with the divine, or limit in any direction of 18thought the omnipresence and omnipotence of God.

  8. SH 18:3-5

    Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated man’s oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him Divine onenessendless homage.

  9. SH 497:13 We

    We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evi-dence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity 15with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the 18Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.

  10. SH 467:13-18

    Having no other gods, turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide 15him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, hav-ing that Mind which was also in Christ.

        Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and 18God as not in man but as reflected by man.

  11. SH 205:29-3

    Denial of the one-30ness of Mind throws our weight into the scale, not of Spirit, God, good, but of matter.

        When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, 206 206:1we can have no other Mind but His, — no other Love, wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no con-3sciousness of the existence of matter or error.

  12. SH 480:10-12

    Consciousness, as well as action, is governed by Mind, — is in God, the origin and gov-12ernor of all that Science reveals.

  13. SH 513:17

        Spirit diversifies, classifies, and individualizes all 18Continuity of thoughtsthoughts, which are as eternal as the Mind conceiving them; but the intelligence, exist-ence, and continuity of all individuality remain in God, 21who is the divinely creative Principle thereof.

  14. SH 202:3

        The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God’s will must be universally done.

  15. SH 54:8-10 All

    All 9must sooner or later plant themselves in Christ, the true Inspiration of sacrificeidea of God.

  16. SH 497:24 And

    And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and 27to be merciful, just, and pure.

  17. SH 267:5-6 The

    The 6allness of Deity is His oneness.

From the Christian Science Hymnal
Hymn 464: “May I perceive all being one” verse 3
Hymn 444: “Be still, my heart” verse 3
Hymn 157: “One the Mind and Life” verse 2

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