Article June 15, 2015 Issue

Our direct connection with God

Robert R. MacKusick

Once, a manager asked me to make an organizational chart for every position in the company I worked for at the time. This manager was a former military officer, and his request took me back to my basic training days in the Army, where we had to memorize the chain of command. This meant that we had to know the name and rank of each person above us, from our squad leader through our company commander and all the way to the President of the United States.

Even though we must know and follow a graded structure at work or in other human activities, there is a divine order of connection with the Supreme Being that is uncomplicated and always immediate. The Bible is rich with examples that prove our direct connection with God, especially through the truth Christ Jesus demonstrated, which showed so clearly that man is always at one with God. This Christ, Truth, is and always has been present, as Mary Baker Eddy writes: “Throughout all generations both before and after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea,—the reflection of God,—has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which baptized these seers in the divine nature, the essence of Love” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 333).

Jesus understood this divine connection, referring to God as his Father, and the divine source of all he did. In John, we read of a conversation between Jesus and one of his disciples: “Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?” (14:8, 9).

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