WEDNESDAY EVENING READINGS
April 18, 2018
Hymns: 245, 59, 306
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PROVERBS
3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

ISAIAH
30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

I KINGS
3:5 … the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
6 And Solomon said,
9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.

SH 308:14-15
The Soul-inspired patriarchs heard the voice of Truth, and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man.

SH 98:31-2
The way through which immortality and life are learned is not ecclesiastical but Christian, not human but divine, not physical but metaphysical, not material but scientifically spiritual.

SH 254:10-12
When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path.

PSALMS
16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

JEREMIAH
29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

PSALMS
27:11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path,
14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart:
32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee…

SH 50:3 2nd Who
Who shall decide what truth and love are?

I KINGS
3:16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19 And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

SH 536:10 (only)
The way of error is awful to contemplate.

PSALMS (Revised Standard Version)
25:8 Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.

SH 202-19-20 the (to ,)
…the true way leads to Life instead of to death,

SH 25:13
Jesus taught the way of Life by demonstration, that we may understand how this divine Principle heals the sick, casts out error, and triumphs over death. Jesus presented the ideal of God better than could any man whose origin was less spiritual. By his obedience to God, he demonstrated more spiritually than all others the Principle of being. Hence the force of his admonition, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”

SH 46:25-26
Jesus was “the way;” that is, he marked the way for all men.

JOHN
5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

SH 137:8-9, 16
Yearning to be understood, the Master repeated, “But whom say ye that I am?”
With his usual impetuosity, Simon replied for his brethren, and his reply set forth a great fact: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!” That is: The Messiah is what thou hast de‐clared, — Christ, the spirit of God, of Truth, Life, and Love, which heals mentally. This assertion elicited from Jesus the benediction, “Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven;” that is, Love hath shown thee the way of Life!

SH 30:5
Born of a woman, Jesus’ advent in the flesh partook partly of Mary’s earthly condition, although he was endowed with the Christ, the divine Spirit, without measure. This accounts for his struggles in Gethsemane and on Calvary, and this enabled him to be the mediator, or way-shower, between God and men. Had his origin and birth been wholly apart from mortal usage, Jesus would not have been appreciable to mortal mind as “the way.”
SH 180:25-30
When man is governed by God, the ever-present Mind who understands all things, man knows that with God all things are possible. The only way to this living Truth, which heals the sick, is found in the Science of divine Mind as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus.

SH 26:10
The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus implied in his own statements: “I am the way, the truth, and the life;” Christ’s demonstration “I and my Father are one.” This Christ, or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which animated him. Divine Truth, Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness, and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man.

ACTS
9:1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man:
20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

SH 326:23
Saul of Tarsus beheld the way — the Christ, or Truth — only when his uncertain sense of right yielded to a spiritual sense, which is always right. Then the man was changed. Thought assumed a nobler outlook, and his life became more spiritual. He learned the wrong that he had done in persecuting Christians, whose religion he had not understood, and in humility he took the new name of Paul. He beheld for the first time the true idea of Love and learned a lesson in divine Science.

SH 151:26
All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal. The straight and narrow way is to see and acknowledge this fact, yield to this power, and follow the leadings of truth.
JAMES
1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally…and it shall be given him.

PHILIPPIANS (Easy-to-Read Version)
2:13 Yes, it is God who is working in you. He helps you want to do what pleases him, and he gives you the power to do it.

JOHN
16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.

I JOHN (J.B. Phillips)
2:20 …God has given you all a certain amount of spiritual insight,
27…his Spirit teaches you about all things, always telling you the truth and never… a lie.

SH 109:22-24
The revelation of Truth in the understanding came to me gradually and apparently through divine power.

SH 110:13-19 (to ;)
In following these leadings of scientific revelation, the Bible was my only textbook. The Scriptures were illumined; reason and revelation were reconciled, and afterwards the truth of Christian Science was demonstrated. No human pen nor tongue taught me the Science contained in this book, Science and Health;

SH 472:5
The way which leads to Christian Science is straight and narrow. God has set His signet upon Science, making it coordinate with all that is real and only with that which is harmonious and eternal.

SH 323:28-32
The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen as felt. It is the “still, small voice” of Truth uttering itself. We are either turning away from this utterance, or we are listening to it and going up higher.
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SH 99:9-12
Truth has furnished the key to the kingdom, and with this key Christian Science has opened the door of the human understanding. None may pick the lock nor enter by some other door.

SH 326:20-21
Working and praying with true motives, your Father will open the way.

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS

“GOD’S LAW OF ADJUSTMENT”

By Adam H. Dickey
The Christian Science Journal, January 1916

…When there seem to be two ways of working out a problem…, and a man decides on a way which seems best, how can he tell, when there are so many arguments against that way, whether the decision was based on Truth or error? … There are times when human wisdom seems inadequate to tell just what is the right thing to be done. Under such circumstances there is nothing to do but to choose that which seems to be in accord with his highest sense of right, knowing that God’s law of adjustment regulates and governs all things; and even if he chooses the wrong way, the Christian Scientist has a right to know that God will compel him to do what is right and not allow him to make a mistake.
When we have reached the point where we are willing to do what seems to be best and then leave the problem with God, knowing that He will adjust everything according to His unchanging law, we can then withdraw ourselves entirely from the proposition, drop all sense of responsibility, and feel secure in the knowledge that God corrects and governs all things righteously.
… We cannot hope to work out of this human sense of existence without making mistakes. We may make many but will profit by them all…We should not let our vanity compel us to adhere to a proposition simply because we have taken a stand thereon. We should be willing to relinquish our former views and change our thought on any subject as often as wisdom furnishes us enlightenment….