Article August 20, 1984 Issue

"The inspiration of the Almighty"

JOY DELL

Most of us would like to believe that there is a divine inspiration available to us when we pray. Sometimes we hope for it, wait for it, even plead for it. What we all have to find out is that it is already here—just waiting to uplift us through our acceptance of the basic truths of perfect God and perfect, spiritual man. But we need to yield to the ever-present, infinite consciousness that is divine Love, and we need to acknowledge our real selfhood, Love's spiritual reflection. Then we have to make sure that our daily living attests to the truth in every way possible.

In the Bible we're told: "There is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding." Job 32:8. To the degree that we accept perfect, spiritual reality, which is entirely separate from what the material senses say is going on, we are yielding to "the inspiration of the Almighty" and yielding up the notion that we have to wait for it. Then we feel the divine influence operating in consciousness to heal our bodies, to bring peace to our homes, progress to our businesses, joy to our universe!

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or 'God with us,'—a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,

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