Fading, Finite Forms
Channel: John London
Date: 2011-06-11

One of the more memorable alliterations found in Science and Health is in a passage that appears in this week's Christian Science Bible Lesson on the topic of "Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?"

S&H 264:7-20
Mortals must look beyond fading, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things. Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm of Mind? We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being.

And that's the inspiration for the first song inspired by this week's Bible lesson.

You can view the sheet music on my website at http://manoftruth.net

Here are the lyrics:

Appearances they come and go.
They don't stick around and as you know
Material things get old and tired and worn.
If you want to know what freedom means
You've got to turn to God's reality
And look beyond those fading, finite forms.

Fading, finite forms are disappearing
Like dreams that pass away and are no more.
They can't reflect eternal states of being.
You just can't see God's reality in fading, finite forms.

It matters where you put your gaze.
Keep your thoughts filled with God's praise,
And turn your mind from mortal thoughts outworn.
Separate the wheat and chaff.
Learn the Truth, in God we have
Power beyond those fading, finite forms.

In the words you think or say
You're balancing the scales that weigh
And bringing forth the Truth or error born.
We must look where we would go.
We must live as though we know
That Truth is not in fading, finite forms.