The ‘adamant of error’: the hardness in hearts and minds of mistaken beliefs about ourselves and others. Harsh thoughts, egotistical thoughts, the strength of opinions that leads us away from spirituality, the following of God’s commands, takes us further and further from our birthright as the Children of God, the Children of Love.
'Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another."2
Strongly held belief that hardens our hearts against others, especially based upon a personal sense of egotism, prejudice, or unfounded opinion gets us nowhere. These are based upon self-will, believing others should act like us, be like us; self-justification, not wanting to see the wrong in our own self; and self-love, the arrogance of egotism and self-centered immaturity. We do not want to be nor can we actually be a 'stiff necked' people. We must be the representatives of Life, Truth, and Love. The images and likeness of God, Good.
“ Yea, they made
their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which
the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore
came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. Therefore it is come to pass, that
as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear,
saith the Lord of hosts:”3
We
are told the way to ‘dissolve’ this ‘adamant of error’ is through ‘the
universal solvent of Love’. The Holy Bible states that if we do not stop
listening to, obeying, and following these adamant errors of thought and action
then we cannot hear God and God cannot hear those thoughts animating us into
the wrong stands.
Love
brings us out of the ugliness of selfishness and egotism. Love lifts us above
the hardness and harshness of opinions. Love leads us into kindness, consideration,
forgiveness, forbearance. Hardness of thought and action leads us into hatred,
willfulness, discord, anger, resentment and finally violence.
Love is the animating power that should direct us every step of the way. We have been taught, “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”4
Humility
and love brings us farther than egotism, harsh thoughts and words, and the
hardness of prejudice. Love brings to us peace between neighbors. Love gives to
us the joy and fulfillment of Goodness.
Let us ‘labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error’. Let us love our fellow man. Let us not only be loving but also think loving thoughts. Let us rejoice in letting go of the hardness of heart and the harshness of thoughts and words. Let us let Grace be the lead of our activities. Let us remove all the ‘self’ opinions of egotism and self-love that leads to self-superiority and ugliness.
Let us let Love be our compass and guide in all that we think, say, and do. Let us be and do the will of Love.
Gentle
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1 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy pg 242 line 17
2 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Psalms 75 vss. 5-7
3 ibid Zechariah 7 vss. 12 and 13
3 ibid I John 4 vss. 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16 (God)
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