Article April 5, 1924 Issue

God's Day

EDITH FREDERICK ALLEN

To our waking consciousness, listening for a morning message from divine Love, how sweet should be the strains of the Psalmist, "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it;" and also the blessed promise of our much loved Leader, as found in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Pref., p. vii), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings."

We have only to lift our thought daily to God, infinite Love, and claim the promise; for God not only gives the promise, but likewise gives the answer. And how shall we do this? By letting our waking thought so turn from self to God that every thought of His day shall belong alone to Him, since all right ideas are indeed already established in divine Mind. Then our only responsibility for the outcome of the day is that we shall prove this true. "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him." Since "the Lord hath made" it, God's day must be good; it must be complete; it must be perfect,—without discord, lack, or limitation; it must contain everything necessary to meet man's need—his usefulness, right activity, ability, brotherly love, strength, supply, patience.

Let us pray daily, as the Master taught us, for that daily bread—good-will and tenderness of thought—which will reveal through us a larger sense of the great shepherding heart of Love, that universal love which frees from thoughts of self and selfishness, and which is pure enough, and great enough, to take in the whole human race. If our day seems hard, and we have not been able to "rejoice and be glad in it," do we not, upon self-examination, find it has been a day of overmuch concern for one's self, and too little for humanity,—too little for mankind everywhere about us, longing and thirsting for the usable and practical truth about God and man, which we as Christian Scientists have to give, longing and thirsting for that purity of affection, that real love which flows outward as we forget self and our own problems in lifting a brother out of seeming darkness into the understanding of his real selfhood as the son of God? What a day it is, when given to God through right thinking and loving, and what a contrast to the one lived for self! Let us endeavor to keep the mist of self out of the way, and let God manifest His day!

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