Article September 3, 1949 Issue

GOOD DIVINELY NATURAL

INA K. PITNER

Good was natural and normal to Jesus, and it should be so to us. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, tells us in her "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 200): "It was the consummate naturalness of Truth in the mind of Jesus, that made his healing easy and instantaneous. Jesus regarded good as the normal state of man, and evil as the abnormal; holiness, life, and health as the better representatives of God than sin, disease, and death."

The word "consummate" means "carried to the utmost extent or degree; perfect." Then to Jesus, good was entirely natural, with nothing to oppose it. He saw man, the spiritual image and likeness of God, as naturally and normally governed by divine Mind, empowered by Mind, and living to express the qualities of Mind. His consummate realization of these spiritual facts resulted in his unprecedented healing work, his proof of man's present perfection.

No wonder Jesus loved little children, with their eager spontaneity and their supreme faith in good. It was his loving recognition of these qualities that led him to say to his disciples (Mark 10:14), "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." Love's presence and healing power are very real to little children, who have not accepted the world's belief in the reality and power of evil. In their innocence and purity they are very close to God, and their simple, trustful thought readily accepts Love's power and uses it as a sure defense against all forms of mortal discord. To live upheld by complete confidence in Love is to find release from fear through realizing that man's nature reflects God's nature, thus even to enter somewhat into the kingdom of God.

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