Being A Servant of God

In last week’s lesson, it mentioned how Christ Jesus “made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant.” (Philippians 2:7)

It feels clear to me now that when Jesus “made himself of no reputation” he was really keeping himself from a human sense of identity, and that is why he could drop carpentry for healing and preaching, and then drop healing and preaching for fulfilling prophecy, and then drop fulfilling prophecy to impart last bits of wisdom to his disciples and then on to ascending while trusting the future of Christ’s Christianity to God.

Mary Baker Eddy also was willing to fulfill what God wanted at the moment, and then let it go as new divine inspiration came, as we see so much in her biographies, giving just the example of opening the Metaphysical College and then letting it go when God said its time had finished.

I am so grateful for how our wayshowers gave us clear examples of how to live our lives without self-identifying too strictly with particular bits of inspiration no matter how long we end up doing something. These examples have helped me to keep a light grip on identity and reputation and to focus more on simply being a servant.

I am grateful also that the practitioner I worked with for all those years, always had her focus on serving God and was never impressed by human identities, or human anything to be honest. This correct modelling helped me immensely.

I am so grateful for all I have learned and continue to learn in this Church about the pure, unadulterated Christian Science that Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy practiced and lived. Their example and teachings are priceless, and cannot be improved upon. What a constant blessing it is to be here.