Article October 3, 1983 Issue

Refuse to be a sponge

LEONORE IDA RATHBUN

One day when I opened the Christian Science Quarterly to begin my study of that week's Lesson-Sermon, "God the Only Cause and Creator," the Golden Text fairly jumped out at me: "The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord."^{Ps. 33:5.} The thought came: If the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord, how can there possibly be room in it for anything but good?

The Bible says that God made everything that was made,^{See John 1:3 .} and five times in Genesis 1 we read, "God saw that it was good." Genesis 1 also tells us that God made man in His image and likeness, while John 4:24 states, "God is a Spirit." Therefore we know that man is the image, or reflection, of Spirit. And since it is impossible for Spirit's image to be material and mortal, man must be spiritual. Thus anything that seems to be unlike Spirit and Spirit's image is not real; it is an illusion of the physical senses, a lie about God.

On this basis we can refuse to be a sponge for error, or false, material belief. We can realize that as God's spiritual reflection, we are already filled with all the attributes of God, good. Each and every one of us is actually complete, whole, sound, intact, already possessing all good and only good.

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