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Notes and Reference Mar 4, 2001 The following little passage from our lesson this week got me to thinking about how to glorify God. Matt 5:16 Farther down in the same chapter is an interesting expansion of an idea: Matt 5:19 361:25-28 Matt 18:2 Matt 13:31 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, (not like Solomon in all his glory but like David in his humility) The Christian Scientists have a faith of the mustard-seed variety. 33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Matt 9:20 569:11-14 Matt 8:8-10 Ex 16:14,15 (to :) I Sam 17:49 (to 3rd ,) Luke 20:17 I Kings 19:11 the Lord was not in the wind,12 559:8-11 Mark 6:41,42 14:12-15 Mis 250:26 the little (to 2nd ;) the little feet tripping along the sidewalk; The child tripping along the sidewalk is not just some cute observance of ours when we see children, but a message to us to become like that child, have faith of the small seed, touch the hem, offer a few fishes, use a small smooth stone, listen tot he still small voice, simply say the word!, etc. How many more can you find? The Bible and Mrs. Eddy’s writings are filled with this reoccurring theme. The germ of Truth is that still small voice coming to you…yes, you. Moses didn’t think he was not worthy, neither did Jacob. David was just a youth. Remember our friend Gideon, who was “least in his Father’s house? Even Jesus was born in a manger for there was no room for him in the inn. What does Mrs. Eddy tell us to do in her him: 253 My prayer, some daily good to do That’s it! You are not being asked to do some great thing, just “some daily good”. Isn’t that what Naaman was admonished to do in II Kings 5?: Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? Look at the contrast between Naaman and the little maid, or NAAMAN showing up at Elisha’s door with chariots and horses and being met by a messenger. It is the same theme, isn’t it. Remember though, the germ of Truth will be resisted and rejected until God has prepared the soil for the seed. The soil is your thought (or your patient’s thought, or the world’s thought). Is your thinking prepared enough, alert enough, humble enough to recognize the germ of Truth? If it is then we are “showing ourselves approved under God”. |
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