Editorial April 10, 1948 Issue

SERVING WITH GLADNESS

L. Ivimy Gwalter

"Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing," wrote the Psalmist (Ps. 100: 2). Every earnest student of Christian Science feels within him a deep desire to serve in the movement that in some measure he may express his gratitude for the blessings of Christian Science. But sometimes he feels his service does not measure up to his desire: perhaps he is not given the opportunities for which he feels himself qualified, or error may try to rob him of his joy in service through a sense of incompetence or through a paralyzing superstition of having so much to meet. Error's aggressive suggestions fall before the truth that God, the one and only Mind, comprehends within Himself all being and is forever effortlessly and joyously expressing Himself within the compass of His own infinitude.

True self-identification is the foundation of true service; love is its keynote. God alone is the Ego or I AM. Within Himself lies all ability, genius, talent, perfection, completeness, beauty, performance. All power of self-expression belongs to Him and is unrestricted and unlabored in Mind. Man has no limited capacity. He has no inherent ability within himself; consequently he has no disability. He exists as God's reflection. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 310), "God is His own infinite Mind, and expresses all." God does the expressing, and "man" is the term which denotes the expression.

Christ Jesus said (John 5:19), "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise;" and he repeated (John 5:30), "I can of mine own self do nothing." He ascribed to God the power and the glory in all he did. Herein lay the success of his ministry.

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