Article May 24, 1924 Issue

"Be still, and know that I am God"

ELEANOR O. PERIAM

The words, "Be still, and know that I am God," signify that in order to know God, one must "be still," one must attain to the mental attitude that shuts out the clamoring of so-called human will, with its testimony of corporeal sense, and admit only the quiet, steadfast confidence of divine will, of divine intelligence, God. Thus, to "be still" implies the ability to listen to the voice of Truth; it means obedience to the dictates of Truth; it brings into activity right thinking and right action; it brings forth the qualities which develop thought so that it is possible to prove that "with God all things are possible." To "be still" shuts out mortal mind with its insistent cry of self, and opens thought to the light of omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient Mind. In the quiet confidence that waits on God, good, human will is stilled, self-love goes out before the sweetness of divine Love, and God's will speaks to the struggling heart its "peace, be still."

Two little children were playing happily together when a difference arose between them; and one child in anger said, "I hate you!" The other sat very still, the only evidence that she heard being the red flush that swept over her face. After a moment or two she lifted a radiant countenance to her little friend and said, "Why, you can't hate me; for God is Love, and God loves me; and God is everywhere; and where Love is hate cannot be." How simply in her quiet waiting on God had divine Love replaced the discord of hate with the harmony of Love,—the forgiving spirit destroying the belief of hate with sweetest confidence. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 571), "Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you." If the older children of God would accept sweetly as that little child "the panoply of Love," it would greatly simplify the regeneration of the world individually and collectively.

How much it means just to "be still" when under the seeming sting of error, and to "love more for every hate" (Poems, p. 4)! How much it means when tempted by error in any of its guises,—financial problems and difficulties, sorrow, sin, disease,—never to retaliate, but quietly to recognize the angel of His presence, divine Love, as ever operative; just to "be still," and feel the all-prevading, omnipresent love of the Father-Mother, God; to know that in God's kingdom, in the kingdom of Love within one's own consciousness, is rest and peace from the turmoil of mortal mind's tyranny! The reward that awaits the return to childlike trust and joy is the realization of God's love, "the kingdom of God" within. It brings with it the certainty that in so far as we work with God, "with God all things are possible;" for it is God which worketh in us.

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