A fellow practitioner, Betty Gillingham, was just sharing something she had been reading and pondering, and it occurred to me, what a wonderful and timely blog this would make. It's from 1 John 4 and I will type it out for you readers. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God; Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." (Verses 1-4)
And this glorious truth found in verse 14: "And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world."
And some thoughts from someone I've mentioned in my blogs who has brought me much inspiration through his writings on Christian Science. Samuel Greenwood, pointing out the necessity of having Jesus' words paramount in our thought and life writes: "Jesus was not ignorant of who he really was, where he came from, and what he came to do; and he knew when his work was finished. He was aware that he was the Son of God in a special sense, different from the way in which we apply it to ourselves. He had a direct mission from the Father, such as no one before or since has been entrusted with. He left his words for his disciples of all time, words to which he attached unparalled importance, and which he said would never pass away. Thus his words have the same authority today as when they were spoken; and the same promise and power are back of them."
"I think Christian Scientists need to be on guard, lest they let their thought of Jesus slip into the background, as if he has been replaced by something higher. I believe some have gone so far as to think it old-fashioned now to talk of Jesus. He is still the centre of Christianity, and will so continue until the end of error. It is a fatal mistake to relegate Jesus to a secondary place, in the divine plan of human salvation; for it is not possible to separate him from the Christianity which he inaugurated at the command of the Father. Any attempt to do this would only sacrifice its essential vitality and power. Christian Science is not another kind of Christianity; it is the same one."
"Some speak of Jesus and Christ as though they were two separate individuals; whereas there was but one individual there. As Mrs. Eddy says, 'He was inseparable from Christ, the Messiah, -- the divine idea of God outside the flesh.' "(Science and Health)
And when Jesus asked the disciples whom they thought he was, Peter replied, 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'"
Let us then, in every way we can, give to Jesus Christ the honor due the Son of God.
