Editorial November 7, 1925 Issue

"Wait on the Lord"

Duncan Sinclair

How often have the weary and the sick waited patiently on God to lift the burden from them! And how often have many of them as they waited had their faith strengthened by the words of the Psalmist: "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord;" or those of Isaiah: "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." These and many similar passages have brought consolation to untold numbers of the human race, have fostered trust in God, and have begotten a faith which has done wonders in helping them to endure the hardships incidental to mortal existence.

While the passages just quoted have richly blessed mankind since first they were uttered, it is only since Christian Science began to shed its heavenly glow over the pages of the Bible that they may be said to have reached their maximum of inspirational power. For in revealing the truth about God and His spiritual creation, Christian Science has given to men the key wherewith to unlock the Bible. It is enabling them to bring to the study of the Bible such an understanding of Truth and Life and Love that they can readily distinguish between good and evil, between the real and the unreal, the true and the false, and so benefit by the moral and spiritual lessons it contains.

It is readily apparent that the word "Lord" is what may be called the key-word in the above quotations, because their import varies according to the meaning the reader attaches to the word. The Hebrew people, thinking of God as a tribal deity,—Jehovah,—must necessarily have taken a less spiritual and therefore a less helpful meaning out of the words of both the Psalmist and Isaiah than the Christian concept of God affords; and yet, how strengthening to their courage and heart the words were! It is only, however, when one becomes rightly informed about the nature of God as Christian Science reveals it, that one beholds "the glory of the Lord" and is able to derive from such passages as those quoted a far greater measure of helpfulness than he has ever before experienced.

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