Article June 1, 1974 Issue

Do You Feel Really Loved?

GODFREY JOHN

Unless we have a true sense of God's love, something is missing in our lives. If we are being unjustly criticized, facing prejudice, feeling alone, it is not simply human justice, sympathy, or companionship that meets the need. Underlying all problems is the need to be really loved—or rather, the need to recognize and acknowledge the unlimited outpouring of God's love for man. The understanding this involves brings healing, but not without bringing to light our own capacity to love more spiritually. If we have no problem in loving, we have no problem.

"Wait a minute," someone may protest. "I know what's coming: the first thing I'm supposed to do is to like the other party, no matter what he thinks of me!"

No, if we are applying Christian Science, this is not the first thing required of us. We certainly should not reject the possibility that we may end up liking our "enemy," but we must first be willing to do something else. No matter what someone has said or done to us, no matter how much reason we may have to dislike him, we must first be willing to acknowledge that God loves him no less than He loves us. You don't have to like someone before you acknowledge that God loves him. You can see him as he really is— the spiritual idea of God. This is expressing the Christ, Truth, toward him.

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