Article April 14, 1973 Issue

Yielding to God

MARY BARNES

As God's reflection, man is already good, pure, perfect, impeccable. This spiritual fact cannot change, nor would anyone wish it to. The spiritual reality of being is demonstrated only by degrees, however, and it is our task to surrender everything in consciousness unlike the Christ, or Truth, until all that is opposed to God, good, has yielded to His allness.

Yielding to God is a joyous, rewarding experience, enhancing one's health and happiness and bringing greater harmony into one's daily experience. The man of God's creating is always responsive to divine impulsion and thus yields only to good, but we need to resist the evil suggestions of the carnal, or mortal, mind consistently and keep thought in conformity with divine Principle.

The successful practice of Christian Science demands accepting good alone as the reality of existence. It requires surrendering belief in the reality or necessity of sorrow, sickness, or sin for the eternally existing facts of joy, harmony, and holiness. Yielding to truth includes rejecting error. Therefore our main concern is not what we need to give up, but what we are holding in consciousness as legitimate about ourselves or others.

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