Article June 21, 1975 Issue

You Are Not Isolated

VIRGINIA F. DUNN

Do you feel alone, isolated, one against the world? Do you sometimes think there is no one you can turn to, no one really powerful enough to help?

There is someone. You are not isolated. You are always with God. To feel isolated is to accept the false human belief that man is separated from God and he must struggle alone until God is ready to step in and help. Human belief pictures man as mortal, a victim of circumstances, maneuvered by things outside his control, such as heredity, chance, the weather, and world political conditions. It also claims that although one may sometimes get some help from people, at other times he is completely alone in his struggle against difficult or evil circumstances.

Christian Science teaches that this is not the case. Man, the son of God, is Godlike. He is spiritual, controlled and cared for by his heavenly Father. And God is his only source of good, not people or human conditions. Christ Jesus said, "There is none good but one, that is, God."^{Matt. 19:17;} God, infinite good, creates a good universe and man. Our understanding of this enables us to recognize not only opportunity but also present good. It enables us to know and prove that "we are labourers together with God,"^{I Cor. 3:9;} to express courage because God is the only power, to feel peaceful because God is good, to look forward to the future because God is All.