Universal Solvent of Love

A recent lesson had what Mary Baker Eddy wrote on page 242 of Science and Health: “In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, — self-will, self-justification, and self-love, — which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death.”

There was a time where I was quite willing to justify myself and get defensive and take things personally. I even remember once telling someone, “Of course I am taking this personally, it is happening to me.” Additionally, I also spent years defending my own choice to stay in horrible situations without making any true attempts to change it, and I would often justify it by saying it was because I was a loyal person. In the end, however, no matter how awful it became, I was too afraid to lose that life, and I went through a foolish amount of effort to prove to myself and others that everything was fine. But it wasn’t fine, and no mental gymnastics or verbal trickery could make it fine.

I am very grateful to Christian Science and all the practitioner support I received through the years for healing me, and showing me that the only loyalty we need to have is to God. I am forever grateful for how that “universal solvent of Love” so thoroughly dissolved those errors and freed me to move forward.

Looking back now, I can understand how “self-will, self-justification, and self-love” were warring against my spirituality, because I most certainly was not reflecting more than perhaps a tiny amount of divine Love back then. I can see also how those errors could act as a “law of sin and death” because of how close I came to being tricked into taking my own life. I am so thankful I lost that old life and gained this one. God is so good!

I am very grateful for all that I have learned here in Plainfield about pure Christian Science, for all the practitioner support I received over the years, and I am grateful for all the healings and changes in character I have had in my time here. It is a constant blessing to be here.