Article March 18, 1950 Issue

REST IN GOD

ALAN A. AYLWIN

The earnest student of Christian Science soon finds that real rest is a state of right thinking rather than of physical inaction. He finds the Biblical injunction, "Be still, and know that I am God" (Ps. 46: 10), the perfect remedy for weariness and tension; for these impostors fade away in the quiet, confident realization that God, infinite Mind, is All—the I AM of man and the universe.

True rest has nothing to do with apathy, inertia, or indolence. Mary Baker Eddy states crisply in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 519), "God rests in action." This divine action is Mind's knowledge of itself and of its universe, and spiritual man reflects this restful activity. Holding in thought the infinite idea is, then, both one's true activity and his true rest—alert awareness and complete relaxation. This true knowing can never tire one.

The understanding of God's oneness and wholeness and of man's eternal individual existence in God, is the Christ, the "bread of life" referred to by Jesus (John 6:48). This bread rests and nourishes us in the degree that we partake of it. It releases us from the wearying beliefs of tension and pressure which modern life would attempt to foist upon us.

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