Editorial July 30, 1949 Issue

DEEP WATERS

Robert Ellis Key

"Deep waters" is an expression that has come to mean sorrow and anguish. How often we have heard it in connection with one who has been in great trouble! Not infrequently a sufferer has lifted a tearful face to a Christian Science practitioner in recounting some sad experience through which he has passed. The practitioner, however, remembers Mary Baker Eddy's words in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 132), "The Christian Scientist knows that spiritual faith and understanding pass through the waters of Meribah here—bitter waters; but he also knows they embark for infinity and anchor in omnipotence."

To believe we are passing through deep waters may be to admit that we have sunk into their depths. Jonah felt the waters closing over him when, at his own request, his shipmates cast him into the deep. His adversity, however, was a step toward his salvation. Although incarcerated for three days, he was cast safely upon the shore. Have we, like Jonah, ever been through deep waters, tossed overboard, so to speak, consigning ourselves to the depths of spiritual oblivion? If so, then the way of deliverance is at hand.

Spiritualization of thought reveals an unbroken relationship between God and man, a oneness which is inviolate. At no time, in no place, and under no circumstances can we be separated for an instant from God. Even though the waters closed over his head, Jonah was safe.

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