Article July 31, 1976 Issue

Are You Feeding the Master's Sheep?

FRANCES FIGGINS

The Christ, today as in Jesus' time, demands, "Feed my sheep." John 21:16; Is this admonition always heeded? Are we always ready to feed the need of those whose hunger for Truth is more acute and insistent than the hunger for bread? Do we think someone else can do it better? Those who themselves have been blessed by Christian Science have an obligation to feed the spiritually hungry with love and with practical understanding of Christian Science.

True, there are some who have more spiritual food to share than others. Those who have made steady progress in their spiritual understanding of God and His Christ see man most clearly as the perfect spiritual idea of God, including and reflecting all that God is; they realize that in his true being man is never fearful, depleted, impoverished, or identified as a physical mortal. However, this does not mean that God, our heavenly Father, favors some of His children more than others. No! Through consistent study of Christian Science, resulting in greater purification of daily living, each and every one has an equal opportunity to overcome the errors of material sense, to become a clearer window for Truth and Love. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes of Jesus, "Christians claim to be his followers, but do they follow him in the way that he commanded?" Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 37;

What can we do to feed his beloved sheep? We cannot go about in a half-starved condition expecting to help others. We must first spiritually nourish ourselves. Loving God and His Christ is essential if we are to be furnished with the spiritual food to enlighten and heal humanity. We need to look to God, think of Him deeply, even pray long hours to receive spiritual refreshment and enlightenment to share with others. Divine Spirit, eternal Truth, is the source, the loving giver of our spiritual food. It is His divine impulsion that enables us to give in our turn.

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