Article September 2, 1967 Issue

Listening to God

W. A. GIBSON MARTIN

In most of the arts today instruction is eagerly sought and readily available. But where can one be taught the art of listening? It is one of the oldest and most essential of the arts. Mankind's education and progress depend largely on how we listen and to what we listen.

Listening to God brings rich blessings to mankind. By listening to God on Mount Sinai, Moses was able to receive the Ten Commandments. All through the Scriptures one finds records of how priests, prophets, and apostles heard God's voice and obeyed. As a result the people of those days were guided, protected, and fed. So in our day men need to listen to God expectantly, patiently, as the Psalm advises, "Be still, and know that I am God."^{Ps. 46:10,}

In striving to be still, one frequently finds it necessary to search for and use powerful, purposeful affirmations which establish in thought man's true, spiritual nature, thereby driving out the claims of the false, material concept of man. By annihilating the false and substituting the true, one spiritualizes consciousness and attains that confident, expectant attitude which shuts out material sense. Thus one hears in thought the divine voice, and hearing is uplifted and strengthened in an unyielding resolve to obey the divine will insofar as one comprehends it. Such listening, supported by the study and practice of Christian Science, powerfully counteracts the false concept of man with its sins and suffering, replacing it with a clear recognition of the man of God's creating, perfect and eternal.

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