A recent edition of 'Sentinel Watch' - a weekly broadcast/podcast from the Christian Science Publishing Society left a lasting impression on me. The speaker - John Biggs - spoke about picking and choosing Bible passages that suited him while rejecting passages that did not suit him. That's me too, I thought. John realised his mistake! So, I've been endeavouring to read everything that comes my way - Bible passages, newspaper stories, novels, biographies - more carefully and appreciatively. And if I don't like a passage, it's time to dig deeper.
And so to our book this month, Colossians.
Here's a lovely thought: '...the body is of Christ' (Col 2:17).
If something has 'body' it has weight, significance, value, substance, worth. Also, we can have a body of water, a body of people etc.
The Lexham English Bible translates the passage as: 'the reality is Christ'.
The Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, speaks of Christ as 'the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error' (Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures p. 583).
God is what's real.
Julie Swannell
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