IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BIBLE LESSON March 1, 2010 Issue

WALKING THE WALK WITH GOD

ANN EDWARDS

THIS WEEK'S Christian Science Bible Lesson, titled "Man," opens with the Golden Text's declaration that God created man, all of His children, in His image and likeness. The Lesson reassures us that through spiritual growth we can realize this fact and live it out in our daily life. Our inseparability from God's love enables us to do this.

The Responsive Reading from Romans brings this out with St. Paul's declaration: "I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God ..." (Rom. 8:38, 39).

Mary Baker Eddy saw the fact of man's inseparability from God as a scientific fact, and insisted that it must be lived out in everyday life. She wrote that "the scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God's will must be universally done" (Science and Health, p. 202, citation 11). She saw man's spiritual understanding of this as developing in three stages, and defined those stages in the "Scientific Translation of Mortal Mind" (see Science and Health, pp. 115–116, cit. 10).