I’ve been working with this week’s lesson on the topic of Mind. Here are some of my thoughts on the Golden Text and the Responsive Reading:
Golden Text
Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
This lesson is not just about our reading about Mind, but in our getting into the divine Mind—taking it on for ourselves.
Responsive Reading
Psalms 18:28 my God, 32; 139:2, 12(to : ), 14, 16-18 in, 23, 24 and lead
my God will enlighten my darkness.
God is bringing us into the light—that is, He is enlightening us, increasing our understanding, showing us what we need to know, and giving us vision where there was none before. Love is continually blessing us, bringing us more and more good, eternally loving us.
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
God gives me strength, surrounds me, encircles me, equips and provides for me. He makes my way perfect, makes the way forward clear, fast, open, filled with opportunity. He makes clear to me the steps I need to take, and makes the way forward available to me. I recognize God’s hand in my life. It is He that makes the difference, that strengthens me, that makes my life go well.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
God knows when I sit back and when I plow ahead. He understands how I am thinking and why I do the things I do.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day:
Material light and darkness is irrelevant to spiritual sight. With spiritual light, I can see no matter what my eyes are showing me. I’m not dependent on material light or physical eyes. I see with the eyes of Spirit.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
I am an awesome and wonderful creation, made in His image and likeness, and I know it!
in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
God created every little bit of me before I was formed. I am not a material creation. I am a thing of Mind. God’s thought of me is all that I am. My character and being were not decided by a material history, an earthly Mother and Father, where and when I was born, my education, my relationships or my career. My nature was decided and fashioned before I ever was given form.
God’s thoughts of me are more in number than the sand. God has countless ways and measureless potential to unfold within me. It shows me just how wrong I am if I see my horizons shrinking as I grow older! God has barely started with me!
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
and lead me in the way everlasting.
God, look at my feelings, look at how I’m thinking, see how I’m doing and lead me down the spiritual road.