Topic: You are never trapped in the wilderness
The Bible:
(1) Ps 42:6 (to :),7-9,11 (to 2nd ?)
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me:
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?
(2) Ex 13:17 (to ;),18 (to :),21
17 ¶ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near;
18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea:
21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
(3) Ex 15:22 and they went out,23 (to :),24,25 (to :)
22 and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
23 ¶ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter:
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet:
(4) Num 21:8,9, 16
8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
(5) II Sam 22:29 thou,30
29 thou art my lamp, O Lord; and the Lord will lighten my darkness.
30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
(6) Isa 51:11 the redeemed,16 I have put
11 the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
(7) John 3:14 as,15
14 as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
(8) Matt 4:18-20,23-25
18 ¶ And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
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.
24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.
(9) John 6:16,17,19-21
16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
(10) Luke 13:11-13
11 ¶ And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
(11) Ps 107:1,4-7,35-38
1 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
(12) II Cor 13:11 be of good
11 be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:
by Mary Baker Eddy
(1) 597:16
WILDERNESS. Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spon-
taneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a
18 material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense
unfolds the great facts of existence.
(2) 551:24-26 Darkness
24 Darkness and
doubt encompass thought, so long as it bases creation on
materiality.
(3) 507:21-22,31-5
21 A material world implies a mortal
mind and man a creator.
Thus misinterpreted, the divine idea seems to fall
1 to the level of a human or material belief, called mortal
man. But the seed is in itself, only as the divine Mind
3 is All and reproduces all — as Mind is the multiplier,
and Mind's infinite idea, man and the universe, is the
product.
(4) 218:25-29
Resist the temptation to believe in matter as
intelligent, as having sensation or power.
27 The Scriptures say, "They that wait upon the Lord
. . . shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,
and not faint."
(5) 318:9
What
the senses
9 The material senses originate and originate
support all that is material, untrue, selfish, or debased.
They would put soul into soil, life into limbo, and doom
12 all things to decay. We must silence this lie of material
sense with the truth of spiritual sense. We must cause
the error to cease that brought the belief of sin and death
15 and would efface the pure sense of omnipotence.
(6) 478:24-27,30-1
24 From beginning
to end, whatever is mortal is composed of material hu-
man beliefs and of nothing else. That only is real which
27 reflects God.
30 Mortal man is really a self-contradictory phrase, for
man is not mortal, "neither indeed can be;" man is im-
1 mortal.
(7) 420:10-13
Instruct the sick that they are not helpless victims,
for if they will only accept Truth, they can resist disease
12 and ward it off, as positively as they can the Positive
temptation to sin. reassurance
(8) 182:32
The law of Christ, or
1 Truth, makes all things possible to Spirit; but the so-
called laws of matter would render Spirit of no avail, and
3 demand obedience to materialistic codes, thus departing
from the basis of one God, one lawmaker. To suppose
that God constitutes laws of inharmony is a mistake; dis-
6 cords have no support from nature or divine law, however
much is said to the contrary.
(9) 393:32
disease and its cause. It is well to be calm in sickness;
1 to be hopeful is still better; but to understand that sick-
ness is not real and that Truth can destroy its seeming
3 reality, is best of all, for this understanding is the uni-
versal and perfect remedy.
(10) 490:14
Human theories are helpless to make Theories
15 man harmonious or immortal, since he is so helpless
already, according to Christian Science. Our only need
is to know this and reduce to practice the real man's di-
18 vine Principle, Love.
(11) 258:21
21 The
human capacities are enlarged and perfected in propor-
tion as humanity gains the true conception of man and
24 God.
(12) 231:16-2
God is not the author of mortal discords.
Therefore we accept the conclusion that discords have
18 only a fabulous existence, are mortal beliefs which divine
Truth and Love destroy.
To hold yourself superior to sin, because God made
21 you superior to it and governs man, is true wisdom. To
fear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love Superiority
and the divine Science of being in man's rela- to sickness
24 tion to God, — to doubt His government and and sin
distrust His omnipotent care. To hold yourself superior
to sickness and death is equally wise, and is in accordance
27 with divine Science. To fear them is impossible, when
you fully apprehend God and know that they are no part
of His creation.
30 Man, governed by his Maker, having no other Mind, —
planted on the Evangelist's statement that "all things
were made by Him [the Word of God]; and without
1 Him was not anything made that was made," — can
triumph over sin, sickness, and death.
(13) 230:11-22
It would be contrary to our highest ideas of God to
12 suppose Him capable of first arranging law and causation
so as to bring about certain evil results, and God never
then punishing the helpless victims of His vo- inconsistent
15 lition for doing what they could not avoid doing. Good
is not, cannot be, the author of experimental sins. God,
good, can no more produce sickness than goodness can
18 cause evil and health occasion disease.
Does wisdom make blunders which must afterwards
be rectified by man? Does a law of God produce sick-
21 ness, and can man put that law under his feet Mental
by healing sickness? narcotics
(14) 207:10-16,20-23
Evil is not Subordination
supreme; good is not helpless; nor are the of evil
12 so-called laws of matter primary, and the law of Spirit
secondary. Without this lesson, we lose sight of the per-
fect Father, or the divine Principle of man.
15 Body is not first and Soul last, nor is evil mightier than
good. Evident
impossibilities
There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can
21 be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no
reality in aught which does not proceed from One primal
this great and only cause. cause
(15) 192:11-26,30
Erring power is a material belief, a blind miscalled force,
12 the offspring of will and not of wisdom, of the mortal mind
and not of the immortal. It is the headlong Human power
cataract, the devouring flame, the tempest's a blind force
15 breath. It is lightning and hurricane, all that is selfish,
wicked, dishonest, and impure.
Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds
18 the "wind in His fists;" and this teaching accords with
Science and harmony. In Science, you can The one
have no power opposed to God, and the physi- real power
21 cal senses must give up their false testimony. Your in-
fluence for good depends upon the weight you throw into
the right scale. The good you do and embody gives you
24 the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a
mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness
and falls, never to rise.
30 Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed
love, receives directly the divine power.
From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymns 401, 84, 312
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