Blessings from the creator

This week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson, “God the Only Cause and Creator,” establishes facts about who we are as part of God’s glorious creation and how those facts ensure blessings for us.

Did you know that God rejoices in us? When we read in Psalms that “the Lord shall rejoice in his works” (104:31 , citation 3), we can and should include ourselves in God’s rejoicing! Now, some may read that statement and think: “That doesn’t apply to me. Why would God rejoice in me?” Very simply, because God is divine Principle, Love, and He alone created us. As the work of His hands, man reflects the glory and goodness of his Maker. Identifying God as divine Principle, as Mary Baker Eddy does in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, reminds us that there is no variableness in God, so He is always rejoicing in us (see p. 331 , cit. 1).

One of the qualities we possess as God’s creation is beauty. Science and Health tells us, “Beauty is a thing of life …” (p. 247 , cit. 8), and we most certainly reflect God as Life, and thus express beauty as an aspect of God’s reflection.

Another blessing we possess, as does the rest of creation, is usefulness. The Golden Text of this week’s Lesson says heaven and earth were not created in vain. That is, God’s creation is not empty or worthless (see Isaiah 45:18 ). Just the opposite: All of God’s creatures, including man, are substantive and fruitful, and are sustained by God. 

On the other hand, fruitlessness is not caused by God and is not sustained by Him. Jesus demonstrated this by withering the unfruitful fig tree (see Matthew 21:19, 20 , cit. 16). He said, “Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up” (Matthew 15:13 , cit. 17). Thus it is that what is not fruitful or productive is not real—not part of creation. Referring to God as cause, Science and Health explains, “… there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause” (p. 207 , cit. 21).

One way that Jesus shows the applicability of this truth to our lives now is the healing of disease. Multitudes came to him for healing every sort of affliction. The lame, blind, dumb, and maimed were cast at his feet, and they went away healed (see Matthew 15:30, 31 , cit. 17). In a sense, Jesus was restoring their fruitfulness, their worthiness, by causing that which was “unfruitful” to wither away from their lives. Then their true being shone forth to be seen by all.

Hosea encourages us, “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; … for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you” (Hosea 10:12 , cit. 10). When we seek the Lord by understanding Him as the only Cause and Creator, the spiritual goodness of His creation becomes more apparent, and we experience the blessings of beauty, usefulness, and healing.