Sunday, March 29th, 2026 Roundtable
Use the Truth That You Know
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Reality
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Morning Prayer
Good is infinite. If we limit good and concede power to evil, how can we expect to escape that which we believe has power to hold us in bondage? The First Commandment forbids us to believe in a power apart from God. There is no error of any name or nature in my consciousness that can resist, hide, or escape the Truth. The light of Truth and Life and Love shines straight through my belief of evil and banishes it, chasing it into its native nothingness.
My desire is to know and obey God’s law, to be filled with all the fulness of Spirit knowing only the consciousness of God, good.
My health, strength, life, intelligence, action, etc., are subject to the governing and controlling power of the divine Mind, and to nothing else, for there is no other power.
There is no insufficiency of any kind in Truth, in infinite Love.
Good is ever-present, and is the only reality of existence; this renders evil obsolete.
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 106
Daily Watch
124 — WATCH lest your sense of good be comparative instead of uniform, human rather than divine. Human good seems good only by contrast, thus supporting a sense of evil through the belief in opposites. When one says, “I feel fine,” you can hear the unvoiced reason “because I am not sick.”
The belief in comparative good, where a statement of health includes a belief in the reality of sickness, is only a step toward the understanding of that good that is all. The error of human or material good so-called is that it sustains a sense of the reality of evil. For this reason it is necessary to watch one’s sense of good, in order to remove as fast as possible the tinge of human sense, that carries with it the belief in the existence of an opposite possibility. The only sense of good that is uniform, all-encompassing, and that knows no opposite, is the divine.
When God saw everything that He had made and, behold, it was very good, — it was very good, not because it was not evil, but because it came forth from the source of all good. The acceptance of good by comparison was what brought the mist that rose up from the earth. From this mist resulted the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The Master rebuked a man for calling him good (Mark 10). Perhaps he detected that it was a goodness that was in comparison or contrast with men who were not good. Such a conception would be mortal and erroneous, being based on the belief in the possible badness of mortal man.
As long as one’s sense of existence is based on comparison and opposites, he is clinging to the pendulum of mortal belief, which swings between human good and evil, harmony and discord, love and hate, life and death. Such a belief makes a reversal of harmony possible at any time. The scientific consciousness of the reality and everpresence of all good carries no contrast, since it is based on the recognition that God is All, and that everything He created is Godlike and hence perfect.
Discussion points
Association Address of 1950 by Herbert E. Rieke
God. The great I am. the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 587
Matthew 10:16
…be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Golden Text: 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.”
“God’s grace and mercy towards us is never changing and He is always there to guide us back into the way of truth. All that He desires of us is that we listen to His voice, hearken to His Word, trust in His love, rely on His sufficient grace and let the love of Christ guard our heart so that every step we take may be directed by Him, for our eternal benefit and for His greater glory.
Christ is the Way and Christ is our Guide. Christ is the Path, and He is our constant Companion. He is the Rock of our salvation, our Defence, and our Deliverer, but the enemy has set traps on the left and laid snares for us on the right… with doctrinal falsities and entices us away from the highway of holiness with tempting ‘treats’, deadly doubts, and ungodly desires.
Let us learn to listen to the Word of the Lord and hearken to His voice behind us, leading us, guiding us, directing us, and telling us which is the way that we should go so that we are not tempted to turn to the right hand nor to the left – but keep our eyes on Jesus and our ears ever open to His still, small voice of love.”
Isaiah 30:15
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Quiet Realization by Bicknell Young
The Restraining Guide by Rev. Arthur Reeves Vosburgh
The Way by Alice Davis Shelmire
To Whom Should We Look? by Ernest C. Moses
Hero worship is weakness
from Essays and Other Footprints, (the “Red Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy