Editorial December 6, 1930 Issue

Keeping Faith with God

Violet Ker Seymer

The Revelator writes, "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Where are God's commandments to be kept? Primarily, in one's thinking. The thing which is too false to be said or enacted is too false to be thought—to be credited as real—even for a moment. Keeping the commandments in the spirit as well as in the letter calls for the eradication of evil beliefs, the avoidance of wrong influences, and the change from an attitude of passivity toward temptation to one of prompt and successful resistance. So only do we truly keep the commandments to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbor as ourselves, together with all the other commandments involved in these two. And so only do we keep "the faith of Jesus."

In Ecclesiastes it is stated that "whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing." In other words, whoso keeps faith with the true God is kept from evil. What a wonderful reward of obedience, that we "shall feel no evil thing"! Keeping faith with God and the ideal man is the most joyous and constant mental activity one can have; and it is the one most surely and divinely rewarded. The opportunity for fidelity and reward is present throughout every temptation to break faith with God by entertaining the deceiving arguments of fear, doubt, depression, or any one of a host of other human emotions. Evil is merely an argument, masking nothingness and attempting to veil divine allness. As Christian Scientists we do not dwell on the hosts of error, but give thanks for the host of angels, God's thoughts, which are at hand to keep every one of us in the way of health, holiness, and happiness.

"He will keep the feet of his saints." This indicates a promise that through obedience to divine Principle the trend of our thoughts, desires, decisions, and actions shall be kept in line with progress, wisdom, and safety.

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