Article October 17, 1959 Issue

CHILDLIKE ACCEPTANCE OF GOD'S LOVE

HAZEL A. WOOD

Everyone has in his heart, whether acknowledged or not, a deep-seated longing for love, for protection, for an assurance that there is a great, beneficent cause controlling and governing all existence. Christ Jesus taught his followers of a God who loves only. This was a thought-shaking, illuminating unfoldment in those days, because the Hebrew people were steeped in the teaching of a God who both loved and hated.

Jesus taught the importance of a childlike state of thought, if one is to understand God's love in all its marvelous possibilities. He even at times called his disciples "children." And when the disciples asked him who was greatest in the kingdom of heaven, Jesus, after calling a little child to him and setting him in the midst of them, answered (Matt. 18:3), "Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."

In that very material age, people were not ready for the complete revelation of the truth of being, which Jesus was demonstrating. He knew that the full revelation would sometime come. He referred to it as "another Comforter" and as "the Holy Ghost" (John 14:16, 26). This Comforter illumined the disciples on the Day of Pentecost, and centuries later it came as Christian Science, discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy.

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