From the Editors April 28, 2014 ISSUE

I see the light!

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When you exclaim this, it usually means that you understand something a whole lot better. To “see the light” is to recognize a better path or comprehend an idea more clearly. It’s nice how a real turning point in prayer can be when you “get it,” and see the light like that. As you’ve perused this issue of the Sentinel, you’ve read several examples of people praying and becoming enlightened to some wonderful truths of God and God’s creation.

The Bible, too, is a rich record of people turning to and seeing more clearly in the healing light of truth. Look at the beautiful way the book of Isaiah puts it: “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined” (9:2 ).

Darkness has never once, in all of history, created anything, destroyed anything, or caused even the slightest change. 

This “great light” Christian Science teaches is the saving Christ. “Christ is the true idea voicing good,” states Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness” (p. 332 ).

When you’re praying, it’s God’s enlightening messages that prompt you to whisper, “Oh, I get it!” What you often “get” is a better view, not of the problem, but of God. The all-presence of the good that is God is revealed. Better yet, the fact you are enveloped safely in this ever-present, divine goodness, is clearly recognized as your entire status. 

If you saw a shadow on a wall, you wouldn’t think to spray some household cleaner on it and then try to scrub it off. No, the only thing that could rid the wall of a shadow is light! Similarly, shadows in thought called distress, anger, illness, or even what the Bible calls the “shadow of death,” are dispelled by nothing less than light—the light of God. “Come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord,” says the Bible (Isaiah 2:5 ).

“The dark” is powerless—it’s an absence, not a presence—so it could be characterized simply as fear. Always stay clear on the fact that darkness is, by its very definition, nothing. Darkness has never once, in all of history, created anything, destroyed anything, or caused even the slightest change. Truth effectively enlightens thought from a fear of, or false belief in, any presence or action other than God.

Your universe is a universe of thought, and it is enlightened naturally by the divine Love that is God. Because God is all-present, this light shines from every direction. If the light shines from every direction, that means there is no way for a shadow to be created. So, you do see the light—the great light of Christ, Truth. It shines in consciousness, visibly healing and saving.

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