Article February 4, 1956 Issue

SERVING GOD

PAULINE B. RADER

Whatever one does, wherever one is, there is always the opportunity to express God, and that is one's reason for being. Expressing God is doing God's will and brings infinite blessings. The highest service to God is knowing and demonstrating His omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. The highest service to mankind is seeing one's fellow man as actually God's own image and likeness and following in the footsteps of Jesus in daily living.

In an article entitled "Choose ye" in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 3): "The divine might of Truth demands well-doing in order to demonstrate truth, and this not alone in accord with human desire but with spiritual power. St. John writes: 'Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.' The sear leaves of faith without works, scattered abroad in Zion's waste places, appeal to reformers, 'Show me thy faith by thy works.'"

The Mother Church and its branches provide ample opportunity for showing faith by works. The public practice of Christian Science healing and the service of nursing are two such opportunities, and they constitute well-doing, which is in accord with spiritual power. In the seventeenth chapter of Exodus we read that Moses held up his hand while the Israelites were fighting the enemy. As long as he held it high, the children of Israel prevailed. When he became tired and let it fall, the enemy seemed to gain ground. Finally, two of his friends took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. One of his friends stood on one side and one on the other, and they held up his hands until the enemy was completely routed.

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