Article March 13, 1976 Issue

Where Safety Is Found

JULIA IRENE FITZGERALD

The desire for safety is inherent in most of us. But many are wondering where safety can be found. Through the study of Christian Science people are finding the answer to this question. One's safety, they learn, lies in recognizing one's true stature as a child of God. Insecurity stems from a false sense of God and man's relationship to Him. Many accept the erroneous belief that God permits the disasters and hardships that beset humanity. They believe man to be material, governed by chance, and think that existence and safety are essentially dependent on matter in one form or another. Such false beliefs influence one to seek safety in matter instead of turning to omnipotent Spirit, God.

Since God, good, is everywhere and man is the expression of God—His perfect, spiritual likeness—man is always safe. Where man is, error isn't, because where God is, there is no evil, accident, disease, or death. Safety is never external to man. God's idea, man, does not need to seek safety. He is already safe because he dwells in God.

Our great Master and Teacher, Christ Jesus, declared, "I and my Father are one."^{John 10:30;} He clearly perceived that he was the expression of God—that where he was, God was. Because of his feeling of unity with God he proved his invulnerability to evil's claims to harm him. He raised others to life and overcame death himself, thus proving the allness and goodness of God, divine Life. He proved time and again that God's protective power is ever available to keep us perfectly safe from harm.