Article August 7, 1954 Issue

YOU SHALL RUN AND NOT BE WEARY

CLAIRE E. MOORE

The world's remedy for fatigue has always been inaction. One often hears the thought expressed, "You'd better save yourself; you have a big day tomorrow," or, "You'd better take it easy; remember you are not as young as you once were." In mortal belief, strength is limited. But in Christian Science we learn that life is immortal and that strength, not deriving from muscle but always from God, is unlimited. This great truth is not only the fact of our being but the law of our being, as the image and likeness of God.

There is no inaction implied in Isaiah's words (40:28, 31): "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?...They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." And Mary Baker Eddy says in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 218, 219): "The meaning of that passage is not perverted by applying it literally to moments of fatigue, for the moral and physical are as one in their results. When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease."

Certainly the effect of the all-acting God could never be weariness. Real activity is the reflection of God—spiritual, not physical. It means being loving, obedient, and dependable. As we actively reflect the infinite qualities of God, we shall find our human capacity enlarged and lifted out of false mortal mind beliefs of limitation.

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