Even if you doubt there is a God

Channing Walker

Even if someone were to doubt that the sun will rise tomorrow, it would rise. And it would warm the earth. Man's relationship to God is something like that. Maybe in the past we doubted He existed. Maybe sometimes we still do. But that doesn't end ever-present Life, doesn't blot out divine Love (and they're both names for God). And our doubt doesn't stop Love's care and love for us.

Even if you don't believe in God, God does believe in you— the real you He made in His likeness. He knows the goodness, the gentleness, and the intelligence He expresses in you. He knows each of us to be wonderfully, spiritually good—perhaps in a way we only rarely act now. Still, it's how He sees us: purely spiritual. And as we understand Him better, we'll be able to act and live in a way that more and more resembles the reflection of Life and Love we really are, the true selfhood God knows.

Just what is the "God" you've had trouble believing in? Maybe your doubt or disbelief isn't such a bad thing. If the God you've heard or been taught about is unjust or far-off or vague—well, I can't blame you! I'd have trouble worshiping or wanting to know such a God. But get to know Him as He really is. There are seven major terms for Him in Christian Science. Terms that will help make God more concrete to you, no matter what church you go to. Or even if you don't follow any religion. Mrs. Eddy describes God in Science and Health as "Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love."^{ Science and Health, p. 587.} If those terms are new to you as names for God, let them tell you something of His nature. If they are familiar, don't let them slide by. Ask yourself the tough questions: Just what does it mean—one infinite Life? How is it that Love loves every one of us, without a speck of hate? How can I more completely live the truth of Truth?