Article June 27, 1964 Issue

The Necessity for Obedience

[Of Special Interest to Young Men and Women]

DORINDA E. LE CLAIR

That which at first irks us, seems fearsome, or more than we can bear may turn out to be the most fortunate thing that ever happened to us, an experience we wouldn't have missed for anything. This is the way it can be with obedience when we understand and respond to the basic spiritual facts about it. Then we regard it not as something irksome, restrictive, or even formidable but as one of those things we couldn't possibly do without, so essential is it to our well-being. However, only what Christian Scientists know as a spiritually accurate concept of God and man can give us the proper standpoint from which to recognize fully the indispensability of obedience.

Young people have a natural desire to become self-governing. They sometimes find themselves resisting demands for obedience because these demands seem an infringement upon their desire to govern themselves. However, the full degree to which self-government is dependent upon a right sense of obedience is made clear by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." There she says (p. 106), "Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love."

We are prepared to give the right sense of obedience when we understand that there is but one will, God's, and therefore no other either to resist or to defend, and if we trust in the unerring wisdom of it sufficiently to listen for nothing else but the guidance of that one will.

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