Article November 24, 1956 Issue

TRUE PRAYER

ANNE R. ADAMS

On pages 16 and 17 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy gives us the spiritual sense of the Lord's Prayer. The understanding of this prayer in the light of Christian Science has raised many earnest seekers from beds of pain and helped to solve innumerable problems of lack and limitation. To understand this prayer in its true meaning brings the acceptance of God as All-in-all, the all-harmonious One. It shows us that God's kingdom is now and is ever present, that God is supreme and all-powerful.

The spiritual understanding of the Lord's Prayer gives us the ability to express the graciousness of Spirit and the loveliness of Love. It shows us that Love is truly reflected only as we love. It gives us assurance of deliverance from the dreams of mortal belief, sin, disease, and death; and it leads us away from temptation. Finally, it lifts us into the realization of infinite being.

Christ Jesus lived a life of unceasing prayer. His prayers were individual communion with God. Sometimes he talked with God on the mountaintop, sometimes in the wilderness. In his prayers he accepted spiritual reality in contradistinction to sensuous unreality. He continually assured his disciples that Christ, Truth, was forever with them and that Christ had always been and always will be.

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