You Are Not Isolated
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.
To labor together with God is not to think "I can weather this myself" or even "I can solve this problem simply because I'm a Christian Scientist." It is to know that God never created inharmony. Christian Science shows us how to recognize the allness of God and thereby destroy the illusion of a power apart from Him. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord." Science and Health, p. 240 ;
Man does not cause himself to reflect God. He cannot help being God's full expression. Perfect Principle is reflected, and spiritual man is the reflection. Understanding our sonship with God destroys the illusive belief of separation that would make us see ourselves and others as mortal.
Christ Jesus never accepted this illusive belief of separation and therefore he was never alone, or dependent only upon his human self. He was consciously one with his Father, God. When he was in the midst of a storm at sea, he could not be separated from his Father, and his calm trust protected him and his companions and stilled the storm.
Mrs. Eddy proved God's ever-available love, turning to God completely for her health and supply, and for the progress of the Cause to which she devoted her life. She writes: "In divine Science, where prayers are mental, all may avail themselves of God as 'a very present help in trouble.' Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.' " ibid., pp. 12—13 .
Whatever our present human situation, whether Christian Science is new to us or not, we can get over any belief of mortal isolation, or separation from God. We can turn from dependence on ourselves or others to the ever-present help of God. Because we have the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, to show us our sonship with God, our oneness with Him as His ideas, we can understand and prove in our present experience that we are not isolated. We are with God and perfectly cared for by Him.
