"God is love," wrote John in an epistle, "and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." ^{I John 4:16;} Can you conceive of a safer refuge, a more satisfying habitation? Think what such a dwelling place would mean to one living in poverty, functioning under the heavy weight of prejudice, bigotry, discrimination, or fear!

The acknowledgment that man, the child of God, actually lives in God, in Love, and therefore directly partakes of all that God bountifully provides, can be the first step for us out of what may appear to be an incurable or insurmountable material condition.

Mrs. Eddy recognized God's omnipotent love for man, which is sufficient to deliver us from the deepest pit of hopelessness and despair. She states: "A few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipotence of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic fetters and abolish the whipping-post and slave market; but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the breath of freedom come from the cannon's mouth. Love is the liberator." ^{Science and Health, p. 225;} Sin, sickness, deprivation, injustice, loneliness, have no place in Love, God. We must awake to our relationship with divine Life and Love, which is our only real relationship.

Love's dwelling place does not include fear. John wrote further, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." ^{I John 4:18;} One dwelling with Love, Spirit, has no reason to fear. Fear is no part of the atmosphere of Love. What Love does not express could not be manifested anywhere. What about hate, malice, animosity? Are these any more like Love than fear is? They are so unlike Love that they couldn't possibly germinate or endure in Love's radiant expression, man. Discrimination, prejudice, injustice—obviously, none of these evil beliefs bear any resemblance to Love; therefore they are no part of Love's dwelling place.

The need for love, to be loving and to be loved, is one of the greatest needs of mankind. Almost every difficulty in our lives can be traced to a point where we believed we were unloved, or to a time we were unloving. Lack of love would appear to be the main factor contributing to most personal, national, and world ills. It is an aggressive mortal belief, suggesting the absence of God.

Christian Science reveals the law of Love, which declares man's indestructible relationship to God, divine Mind. In conformity with the first commandment, this law of Love allows for no other Mind or power. Divine Mind, infinite Love, is man's only Mind. Man is the idea, the expression, of infinitely intelligent Mind.

That God is Love, and Love is Mind, points to the absolute supremacy of the one all-loving Mind each of us reflects, and which is the sole source of our existence. It precludes the reality of anything unloving, unloved, or unlovely—anything unlike Love. Mind, Love, simply cannot know, create, or express anything unlike itself.

Reluctance to acknowledge that God, Love, is omnipotent, omniactive, and omnipresent, and unwillingness to identify ourselves and others as perfect individualized expressions of Love, blocks the road to success, progress, happiness, and health.

At a period when distrust, suspicion, rivalry, and greed often appear to be running rampant among nations, races, and individuals, we can find within ourselves, within our consciousness of who we are as expressions of divine Love, the spiritual strength and desire to quell the aggressive suggestions of evil.

Scientifically speaking, man is spiritually conceived and known by divine Mind, and is representative of all that Mind includes. Immortal Mind's idea cannot become the object of jealousy, bitterness, hatred—characteristics of mortality. Man's substance is Love, Spirit, and therefore he radiates love.

Man is never deprived of goodness and mercy. He dwells forever in Love, God. The Psalmist wrote: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever." ^{Ps. 23:6;} Mrs. Eddy interprets this spiritually inspired passage this way: "I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [love] for ever." ^{Science and Health, p. 578.}