Editorial March 21, 1959 Issue

LISTENING FOR GOD'S VOICE

Harold Molter

Our great Exemplar, Christ Jesus, showed us in his experience how to listen for God's voice, the voice of Truth. His fast of forty days in the wilderness consisted of more than a period of abstaining from food. It must have been a time of deep searching of consciousness, an examination of his aims, ambition, motives. His fast required a steadfast turning to God and a listening for Truth's voice. It included a heroic resistance to evil and a denial of the temptation to turn from Spirit to matter, with its claims of power and ambition.

In this experience, Jesus completely silenced the voice of error and learned to listen only to the voice of Truth. This guided him securely during his entire earthly career and led him safely through the experience of the cross and the tomb, up to the ascension.

In her Message to The Mother Church for 1902, our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes to its members (p. 17), "Consult thy every-day life; take its answer as to thy aims, motives, fondest purposes, and this oracle of years will put to flight all care for the world's soft flattery or its frown." And later she adds regarding the inner voice of Truth, "Be faithful at the temple gate of conscience, wakefully guard it; then thou wilt know when the thief cometh."

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