Article October 17, 1925 Issue

Divine Activity

JOY E. R. ZINT

One of the most energizing statements to be found in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is the assurance, on page 519, that "God rests in action." It awakens a sense of glad anticipation. For can we think of greater freedom than is here suggested, the joy of service and the freedom to accomplish, without the hampering consciousness of weariness? We have already learned, as Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 183), that "whatever is possible to God, is possible to man as God's reflection."

To gain this "consummation devoutly to be wished," we begin by a right recognition or comprehension of God as our Father, our creator, governor, and guide. This understanding can be gained only through an unprejudiced, consecrated study of the Bible and our Leader's writings, laying aside all former theories regarding an anthropomorphic God, a God liable to changeableness and to the influence of the petitions of mortals wholly unfit to advise the infinite One or to direct His acts.

A sense of freedom comes with the first glimpse of the omnipotence and omnipresence of the "all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love," as God is in part defined on page 587 of Science and Health. We know man as we understand God, since man is the reflection of God. And this understanding unfolds into conscious dominion over all that would hinder our highest development, and into larger opportunities for knowing and doing the will of God.

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