Article July 27, 1957 Issue

"GOD SAW"

HELEN H. SPANGLER

"God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Gen. 1:31). It is helpful to ponder the full significance of the words, "God saw," for God's sight is, in truth, the only sight, eternally perfect, seeing only good. Since God is the only creator and since His creation is eternal and unchangeable, only that which is good and eternally perfect exists.

If we could see creation as God made it, we would heal as Jesus did, since it was Jesus' beholding the perfect man which healed the sick. According to Christian Science, the all-seeing, all-knowing Mind is man's Mind, and man, God's idea, reflects or represents God's discernment.

Jesus said (Matt. 6:22), "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." And in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines "eyes" as "spiritual discernment,—not material but mental" (p. 586). A dictionary says that "discern" means "to make out as with the eye or by the mind; . . . to lay hold of with the understanding." Only by the singleness of our spiritual discernment, by seeing man as God made him, the embodiment of spiritual ideas, is one's body full of light, full of spiritual inspiration and understanding.

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