Article March 14, 1953 Issue

TALK WITH GOD

BETTY E. THOMPSON

Christian Science denies all concepts of God as a corporeal, manlike being and reveals Him to be infinite Spirit, Mind, Love. It is highly important for effective prayer that students give up all preconceived pictures of a personal Deity. If we pray to a finite, humanized God we are implying that the Supreme Being is subject to the fleeting conditions of mortality, and faith trembles with uncertainty. One can see the folly of attempting to demonstrate the allness of God while confining Him in supposition to a limited form. Mary Baker Eddy explains the danger of such a method in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 13): "If we pray to God as a corporeal person, this will prevent us from relinquishing the human doubts and fears which attend such a belief, and so we cannot grasp the wonders wrought by infinite, incorporeal Love, to whom all things are possible."

Accepting God as incorporeal, divine, should not by any means suggest the lessening of one's ability to communicate directly with his Maker. Rather, it should strengthen one's ability to commune with that which is known to be infinite, ever-present Mind. Of course, as one gains an understanding of God as Spirit it is readily seen that man, made in His image and likeness, must be spiritual. Likewise, it is admitted that God as Mind can express Himself only in ideas. Thus man is clearly seen to be a spiritual idea, possessing all the attributes of his God. It follows that, as idea, man is inseparable from the Mind, or Life, that is expressing him, giving him life.

Understanding this, one is able to commune with divine Mind at all times. Such communion brings human consciousness into accord with Christ, Truth, thus allowing a sense of health to replace every sickly, false concept, and the knowledge that "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health, p. 494) to overcome all belief in limitation and lack.

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