Article December 7, 1957 Issue

COMMUNING WITH GOD HEALS

RUTH CHRISTIE NICHOLS

True communion is a spiritual experience. God is divine Mind; therefore we cannot communicate with Him through the medium of matter. Dwelling on the things of Spirit—harmony, holiness, and love—we commune with God, and this communion is prayer. Spiritual communion is attained only when thought is lifted above materiality, through spiritual sense, to the consciousness of God's allness. Reaching out to our heavenly Father in holy, consecrated thought, we become aware of His presence. Only as we express the qualities of God in daily living do we prove the sincerity of our communion.

Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, established no material rituals through which one may worship God. Jesus went up on a mountain alone in order to commune with Spirit. He knew that the divine Principle, Life, is Love, and he taught his followers by precept and example that as one lives each day, expressing holiness in good deeds, he proves man's conscious oneness with Deity as God's reflection.

Consecrated, daily communion with God is essential to ensure the continual, spiritual progress of the student of Christian Science. Purifying our thoughts, aims, and desires is the way to draw nearer to God. Thus we prove man's unity with divine Mind and are lifted above error. But if we allow fear, doubt, sickness, or sin to dwell in our thought, we are separating ourselves from God. The results of such thinking are often harmful to mind and body.

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