Editorial April 4, 1925 Issue

"Be still, and know that I am God"

Duncan Sinclair

The forty-sixth psalm, possibly one of several written in celebration of the sudden deliverance of Jerusalem after the overthrow of Sennacherib's army, expresses unbounded confidence in God. God, it tells, was the "refuge and strength" of His people, the Lord of hosts who was with them, and who made "wars to cease unto the end of the earth." "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." Surely with the faith and confidence therein depicted, the people whom the Lord had delivered could be still, and know their God.

How necessary it is that we also should resolve to be still and know God! In this workaday world, with its many material problems, its many material duties, it may not seem easy at times to be still and know God; for when the material senses claim to be active, spiritual sense would appear to be in abeyance. In other words, materiality would have us submit to its thralldom, arguing that it alone should be obeyed. The Christian Scientist is well aware of this. And being alert to the subtleties of mortal mind, he is on guard against them. He knows that the only way to antidote the suggestions of material sense is for him to withdraw within the stillness of his own consciousness and there declare the truth about God,—God, who, as Christian Science has taught him, is ever present Love, omnipotent Truth, eternal Life, the divine Principle of all true being.

Nothing is more wonderful than the fact that it is possible to be alone with God in holiest communion; and the many revelations of Him that have been made have accumulated to make this possible now in a far greater degree than ever before. We of this generation are the spiritual heirs of all the ages, in possession of the great wealth of knowledge of God that men have discovered. How grateful we should be—and are! But are we showing our gratitude in lives of humility and love and consecratedness? Are we as often in "the secret place of the most High" as we ought to be; and there, in the stillness, are we knowing the truth about God and receiving refreshing drafts of the water of Life? It is absolutely necessary to cultivate this withdrawing into the presence of God, if we would receive His blessing.

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