Wednesday Bible Readings
OCT 8TH, 2025
From The Bible
Ps. 69:1 (to ;), 2–4 2nd I (to 1st ,), 4 2nd are (to 2nd :), 16
Save me, O God; ...... I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, ... are mighty: ...Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Jer. 31:3 (to :)
The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: ...
Isa. 57:15 thus; 58:1 (to 4th ,), 6
... thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. ...Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, … Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Ex. 8:1
And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Ex. 19:3 (to 3rd ,)
And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, ...
Deut. 6:4–6
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Ex. 20:3, 5 (to :), 16
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. … Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: ...Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Ex. 23:1, 2 (to ;), 9
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. ¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; ...... ¶ Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Lev. 19:17 (to :), 17 and, 18 (to :)
¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: ... and not suffer sin upon him. ¶ Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ...
Lev. 26:13, 14, 19 I (to ;)
I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. ¶ But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; … ... I will break the pride of your power; ...
Ps. 12:5
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Eccl. 5:8 (to ;)
¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; ...
Acts 10:38 God (to ;)
... God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; ...
Mark 1:23, 27 (to 1st ,), 27 saying (to 1st ?), 27 for
And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, ...And they were all amazed, ... saying, What thing is this? ... for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
Luke 21:8 (to 1st ,), 9 when (to ;), 10 Nation, 11 (to ;), 17, 18
And he said, ...... when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; ...... Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; ...And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
Isa. 34:1 hearken (to :); 35:4, 8 (to 1st ;), 10 (to 1st ,), 10 they
... hearken, ye people: ...Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come withvengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. ...And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; ...And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, ... they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
I Cor. 2:12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
I Chron. 16:31
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The Lord reigneth.
SH 200:4
Moses advanced a nation to the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and illustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal Mind.
SH 186:29–5
If mortal mind knew how to be better, it would be better. Since it must believe in something besides itself, it enthrones matter as deity. The human mind has been an idolater from the beginning, having other gods and believing in more than the one Mind. As mortals do not comprehend even mortal existence, how ignorant must they be of the all-knowing Mind and of His creations.
SH 280:17–21
Moses declared as Jehovah’s first command of the Ten: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me!” But behold the zeal of belief to establish the opposite error of many minds.
SH 114:6
The spiritually unscientific definition of mind is based on the evidence of the physical senses, which makes minds many and calls mind both human and divine.
SH 204:3
All forms of error support the false conclusions that there is more than one Life; that material history is as real and living as spiritual history; that mortal error is as conclusively mental as immortal Truth; and that there are two separate, antagonistic entities and beings, two powers, — namely, Spirit and matter, — resulting in a third person (mortal man) who carries out the delusions of sin, sickness, and death.
SH 289:8–11
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake.
SH 227:30
If God had instituted material laws to govern man, disobedience to which would have made man ill, Jesus would not have disregarded those laws by healing in direct opposition to them and in defiance of all material conditions.
SH 279:22
Every system of human philosophy, doctrine, and medicine is more or less infected with the pantheistic belief that there is mind in matter; but this belief contradicts alike revelation and right reasoning. A logical and scientific conclusion is reached only through the knowledge that there are not two bases of being, matter and mind, but one alone, — Mind.
SH 227:3–15
I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error, and that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mortals are taught their right to freedom, so the claims of the enslaving senses must be denied and superseded. The law of the divine Mind must end human bondage, or mortals will continue unaware of man’s inalienable rights and in subjection to hopeless slavery, because some public teachers permit an ignorance of divine power, — an ignorance that is the foundation of continued bondage and of human suffering. Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to foresee the doom of all oppression.
SH 205:22–31
When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded; whereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders man’s normal drift towards the one Mind, one God, and leads human thought into opposite channels where selfishness reigns. Selfishness tips the beam of human existence towards the side of error, not towards Truth. Denial of the oneness of Mind throws our weight into the scale, not of Spirit, God, good, but of matter.
SH 242:6
Denial of the claims of matter is a great step towards the joys of Spirit, towards human freedom and the final triumph over the body.
SH 227:18
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Love and Truth make free, but evil and error lead into captivity.
SH 225:23
Legally to abolish unpaid servitude in the United States was hard; but the abolition of mental slavery is a more difficult task. The despotic tendencies, inherent in mortal mind and always germinating in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out through the action of the divine Mind.
SH 226:5
The voice of God in behalf of the African slave was still echoing in our land, when the voice of the herald of this new crusade sounded the keynote of universal freedom, asking a fuller acknowledgment of the rights of man as a Son of God, demanding that the fetters of sin, sickness, and death be stricken from the human mind and that its freedom be won, not through human warfare, not with bayonet and blood, but through Christ’s divine Science.
SH 114:23–24, 25–27
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical. ... It shows the scientific relation of man to God, disentangles the interlaced ambiguities of being, and sets free the imprisoned thought.
SH 433:31–1 Christ
... Christ, Truth, the spirit of Life and the friend of Mortal Man, can open wide those prison doors and set the captive free.
SH 315:11
The opposite and false views of the people hid from their sense Christ’s sonship with God. They could not discern his spiritual existence. Their carnal minds were at enmity with it. Their thoughts were filled with mortal error, instead of with God’s spiritual idea as presented by Christ Jesus. The likeness of God we lose sight of through sin, which beclouds the spiritual sense of Truth; and we realize this likeness only when we subdue sin and prove man’s heritage, the liberty of the sons of God.
SH 576:31–4
This human sense of Deity yields to the divine sense, even as the material sense of personality yields to the incorporeal sense of God and man as the infinite Principle and infinite idea, — as one Father with His universal family, held in the gospel of Love.
SH 280:25–4
Rightly understood, instead of possessing a sentient material form, man has a sensationless body; and God, the Soul of man and of all existence, being perpetual in His own individuality, harmony, and immortality, imparts and perpetuates these qualities in man, — through Mind, not matter. The only excuse for entertaining human opinions and rejecting the Science of being is our mortal ignorance of Spirit, — ignorance which yields only to the understanding of divine Science, the understanding by which we enter into the kingdom of Truth on earth and learn that Spirit is infinite and supreme.
SH 225:2; 226:14–17
Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free. ...God has built a higher platform of human rights, and He has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not made through code or creed, but in demonstration of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.”
SH 340:23
One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, “Love thy neighbor as thyself;” annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, — whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.
SH 276:1
Having one God, one Mind, unfolds the power that heals the sick, and fulfils these sayings of Scripture, “I am the Lord that healeth thee,” and “I have found a ransom.” When the divine precepts are understood, they unfold the foundation of fellowship, in which one mind is not at war with another, but all have one Spirit, God, one intelligent source, in accordance with the Scriptural command: “Let this Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” Man and his Maker are correlated in divine Science, and real consciousness is cognizant only of the things of God.
SH 469:30–5
With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which constitute divine Science.
Hymn. 258
Oft to every man and nation / Comes the moment to decide, / In the strife of Truth with falsehood, / For the good or evil side. / A great cause, God’s new Messiah, / Shows to each the bloom or blight, / So can choice be made by all men / Twixt the darkness and the light.
New occasions teach new duties, / Time makes ancient creeds uncouth; / They must upward still and onward / Who would keep abreast of Truth, / And serenely down the future / See the thought of men incline / To the side of perfect justice / And to God’s supreme design.
Though the cause of evil prosper, / Yet ’tis Truth alone is strong; / Though her portion be the scaffold, / And upon the throne be wrong, / Yet that scaffold sways the future, / And behind the dim unknown / Standeth God within the shadow / Keeping watch above His own.Words: James Russell Lowell, adapted
Music: Welsh Hymn Melody
Hymn. 553
Our desire to heed God’s calling / Lifts us to a new design, / Outlined by pure inspiration, / Rendered in Love’s graceful line.
When our own plans seem to crumble / Incomplete or ill-defined, / Let us turn to God’s creation, / Always perfectly aligned.
With the model right before us, / Perfect God and perfect man, / Let God’s wholeness reign within us, / Let Mind’s will perfect our plan.
Far beyond the bounds of matter, / Unrestrained by fear or time, / All our plans unfold together / In Soul’s harmony and rhyme.Words: Mara Purl, alt.
Music: American melody, Pilsbury’s United States’ Sacred Harmony, 1799; arr. CSPS
Hymn. 539
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power; / O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour, / Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight! / Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye / Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall: / His habitation high is here, and nigh, / His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear, / For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! / Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear / No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing; / In that sweet secret of the narrow way, / Seeking and finding, with the angels sing: / “Lo, I am with you alway,”—watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain; / No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain, / And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.Words: Mary Baker Eddy
Music: Lisa Redfern; arr. CSPS
