Article January 9, 1960 Issue

LOOKING UP TO GOD

GEORGIA LA FOLLETTE SCHAD

Christian Science teaches that the way for one to bring about and to maintain a happy and successful state of affairs in his human experience is first to look up to God, the true source of all good, for his help. The Psalmist declared (Ps. 5:3), "In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up."

One can find healing and courage, regardless of what his physical condition or circumstances may be, as he looks in the right direction, namely to God and to the spiritual facts of creation as taught in Christian Science. In Genesis (1: 26) we read, "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

By lifting his thinking to the truth of creation, the individual can prove his dominion over the limitation and error that would curtail his activities or mar his harmony. When he identifies himself as the spiritual image and likeness of the infinite, divine Principle, God, forever governed by God's laws, he learns that he is not actually subject to age, failure, accident, or past mistakes. Christian Science teaches that it is only the false concept, the mortal or corporeal personality, which seems to experience these errors.

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