Article June 19, 1989 Issue

Be comforted—be strengthened

Divine Love brings a spiritual comfort that also gives us the strength we need.

Barbara R. Banks

Some years ago a friend to whom I was telling my troubles said to me, "The Mother-love of God comforts and makes comfortable all God's ideas." The thought helped me then, and it has helped me many times since. Comfort is not just a make-everything-cosy kind of word; it carries from its early background a hint of something much more than that. It is derived from a Latin word meaning to make strong. Comfort, then, can also strengthen us.

Before I knew anything of Christian Science, I had thought of God only as Father. Science has given me an enlarged viewpoint. God is whole, complete; so besides the strength of the Father He includes the comforting love and tenderness of the Mother. The Father-Mother God must have children. We are those children, His children made in the likeness of Spirit, God, as we read in the Bible.

Just as our children look to their parents to supply all their needs, we can look to our heavenly Parent for care, comfort, and strength. God's ever-presence assures us that this care and comfort are unfailing; we are never without them. God is eternal; so real strength, spiritual strength, lasts for ever and ever and ever. It cannot get used up or become exhausted.

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