Editorial November 11, 1950 Issue

NO RESISTANCE TO GOD

Helen Wood Bauman

The Scriptures abound in declarations of God's might, His merciful love, His ability to assert the resistless power of good over evil. If such declarations seem difficult to prove, it is because error's claim to defy God is not recognized as such or because its claim is believed to have actual existence. The truth is that there is no resistance to God, the one infinite Mind, and this is provable through Christian Science, which not only exposes the lying nature of the mind that is not good, but reveals the spiritual consciousness which rouses this false mind from the stubborn self-delusion that it can resist the Almighty.

Paul wrote to the Romans (13:1, 2): "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God." Paul's words reflected his experience. He had felt the blind resistance of carnality in his own nature give way before the light of the Christ-spirit which was flooding the age in which he lived. With simple, direct penitence he made restitution for his bad record by taking Christianity to a pagan world, meeting evil's resistance to his glorious message of true manhood and immortal life and proving in actual practice its powerlessness to prevent the spread of truth. His consciousness of Spirit, its reality and supreme authority, gave him courage to make Christianity a living force to countless listeners and to establish it securely as the only way of life among men.

Mary Baker Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 200), "The holy calm of Paul's well-tried hope met no obstacle or circumstances paramount to the triumph of a reasonable faith in the omnipotence of good, involved in its divine Principle, God."

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