Article April 10, 1943 Issue

Why We Love God

KATHERINE PUFFER

The beloved disciple John wrote, "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us;" and again, "We love him, because he first loved us."

What more comforting assurance can we have at this crucial hour than to be aware that God loves us? And yet many times we are afraid to take God at His word. Have the seeming forces of hate, lust, fear become so real to us that we are mesmerized by them, and do we fail to realize how essential to our very existence is the fact of God's loving? Mary Baker Eddy tells us in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 569), "He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,—in a sweet and certain sense that God is Love."

Like a thread of gold woven through a beautiful tapestry runs the teaching of the Old Testament of God's love for those who served Him faithfully. Daniel, in his vision of the spiritual idea, heard the words, "O Daniel, a man greatly beloved;" and Jeremiah declared, "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."

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