Article March 26, 1979 Issue

Where safety is

RICHARD CLAUDE HAW

The only true safety is in the understanding of God's allness. The belief of living in a material world of lawless mortal minds is loaded with danger. Materialism and fear are inseparable concomitants, and in these latter times we need to get a clearer understanding of what it means to be "hid with Christ in God."^{Col. 3:3;} All the claims of evil—sickness, accident, death, lack, violence, war—are false, urging that matter and mortal mind have life and power and that God is not omnipotent.

Someone once tellingly defined fear as disbelief in the all-powerfulness of God. We are safe in proportion as we understanding and prayerfully realize the spiritual facts of being, in which man dwells in infinite spiritual perfection, wherein Love, the divine Mind, governs all in harmony. In that real and only spiritual realm we cannot be touched by any suggestions of evil, for such suggestions would have to touch God before touching us. St. Paul says, "In him we live, and move, and have our being."^{Acts 17:28;}

The divine fact of safety is that there could not possibly be any power in evil, because God, Spirit, good, is All. Christian Scientists speak of "doing their protective work." This prayerful work is effectual to the extent that one gains the realization that—because of the allness of God—there is nothing real from which we need to be protected. The real man is the very expression of God and has the dominion God gave him. Wherever man is, God is, for God and man are inseparable in being. Since God is infinite and omnipotent, there can be no place where the infinitude of good is absent.

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