Article November 2, 1940 Issue

Lift Up Your Eyes

EDWARD LANSDALE REYNOLDS

In Revelation, John records one of his momentous spiritual experiences as follows: "I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. . . . And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new."

Equally clear realization of God's presence and purpose is made possible to us today through the teachings of Christian Science, as we strive with longing hearts to know Him and to love Him. Really to love God, to feel His nearness, to be consciously enfolded in His presence, is to be freed from the fears and besetments of earthly experience. Small wonder that the Scripture tells us to love God with all our heart and mind and soul! Love as great as this lifts us into the tabernacle wherein God is sensibly with us, even as He was with the spiritually-minded characters mentioned in the Bible. Such wholehearted turning to our Father-Mother God will never fail to win for us the peace and comfort which are rightfully ours as His children.

This fact was impressed upon a student of Christian Science in an experience by which great healing came to him. Traveling across the bay from Sausalito to San Francisco late one night, he sat upon the deserted upper deck immersed in deep discontent and gloom occasioned by a difficult personal involvement. Knowing the utter futility of such a false state of mind, he turned resolutely away from this personal sense to contemplate the star-gemmed heavens. Soon they seemed to beckon to a greater vision of Him who made all that is real in beauty and harmony. This beauty flooded his consciousness with inspiration, and he thought of Mrs. Eddy's words in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 87), "In our immature sense of spiritual things, let us say of the beauties of the sensuous universe: 'I love your promise; and shall know, some time, the spiritual reality and substance of form, light, and color, of what I now through you discern dimly; and knowing this, I shall be satisfied.'

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