Editorial March 4, 1933 Issue

Loving God Supremely

Duncan Sinclair

In the twenty-second chapter of Matthew's Gospel there is recorded Jesus' reply to the lawyer who tempted him. It reads: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

There is no limit, then, to the love which we should have for God. And in demanding this Jesus was asking of men only what he himself gave. For all who will study the Gospel records of his life must admit that among the many traits which distinguished that life, the outstanding one—the chief one, indeed—was his love for God. God was his Father. God cared for him and for all with infinite tenderness. All that he possessed of intelligence, wisdom, truth, love, life, good, was of God. Recognizing this, the Way-shower did not fail to love God supremely.

For the followers of the Master to love God supremely, they must know Him as Jesus knew Him. They must know Him as altogether perfect. By its clear teaching as to the divine nature, Christian Science is bringing home to mankind the wonderful truth that God is infinite Love, infinite good, and that, therefore, He is adorable. And in declaring the truth about the perfection of God, it is exposing and destroying the fallacies held by mortals about Him. Thus, Christian Science is nullifying the erroneous beliefs that God knows both good and evil, truth and error, life and death; that He tolerates evil, and even sends it upon men to punish them, perhaps as sickness or as catastrophic happenings such as earthquake, tornado, and pestilence.

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