Editorial October 6, 1973 Issue

Precious You

Carl J. Welz

"God loves you." These words have lifted the thoughts of many to the fact of their own worth. Somehow they realize it is true. God does love every one of us. And if He does, there must be in each of us something worth loving.

Basically, this is the message of Christian Science—not merely as a religious denomination but as the Science of the teachings and life of the great Exemplar, Christ Jesus. The wise men who brought him gifts at his birth symbolize the homage all thinking people must eventually pay to the idea of individual man as the loved of God. Jesus' teaching centered on this Christ-idea. "God is love," the disciple John wrote, and, "He that loveth not knoweth not God."^{I John 4:8;}

It is the very nature of divine Love to reveal itself in terms of the worth of individual man—man worth loving. The healing works of Jesus showed the practical nature of the Christ-idea. They separated individual human beings from the belief that they were worthless mortals, and removed from them the shackles of disease—shackles never imposed by divine Love. Love always sustains and protects its idea, man, as Love's own image.

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