IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BIBLE LESSON March 29, 2010 Issue

NO BOUNDARIES TO GOOD

MADELON MAUPIN

THIS WEEK'S Christian Science Bible Lesson on "Unreality" addresses some of the tough questions: Is God part of the sadness and pain in people's lives? Did God abandon Christ Jesus on the cross? Is God going to be there when we face testing times?

The Responsive Reading opens with the words Jesus was said to have cried from the cross: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Ps. 22:1). A little later in this segment, the Psalmist declares, "I give myself unto prayer" (Ps. 109:4)—Step One in seeing we are never forsaken or condemned, and how to get out of any feeling that this is so. UNREALITY March 29—April 4, 2010

Who better to illustrate this transformation than the Apostle Paul when he wrote from personal experience that no one who had come to know Christ Jesus would be condemned. Prayer frees; it doesn't condemn. Paul's self-surrender lifted him to discern "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus"—instead of the tyranny of sin and death. As we, too, "give ourselves to prayer," we are promised the glorious truth this week's Lesson amplifies, that "all things work together for good to them that love God" (Rom. 8:1, 2, 28). Then we have the authority to challenge whatever "darkness" asserts itself in our life (see II Cor. 4:6, Golden Text).

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