Article August 14, 1976 ISSUE

To Be Safe

CARL J. WELZ

We can feel safe and be safe under any circumstances, at any time. But such safety demands our devotion to God, who is our defense. God creates and maintains His image, man, in perfect safety. We experience that safety by identifying ourselves with God as the man of His creating.

Is it enough to say words of truth before the day begins or before entering an area where we are not sure we are protected? Words do help if they express God's allness and goodness, His presence, power, and love for all. But only if we use them to identify us clearly as ideas of the one Mind, which is God. Only if we really mean what we are saying. We need to become conscious of ourselves in a way that the criminal thought cannot find. Then we are dwelling "in the secret place of the most High." Ps. 91:1;

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