Editorial March 16, 2020 Issue

Grasping the infinity of God—help that is always present

Barbara Vining

The human mind has a habit of viewing most everything through the lens of limitation. And this makes it hard for people to believe that there can be such a thing as an unlimited God—a divine presence that is everywhere at all times for everyone. So, we often adopt a faith in God through a feeling that there must be a God, but without understanding what this means and how it can bring healing to our lives.

But the Bible, studied in the light of Christian Science, offers a spiritual lens through which God can be understood. This lens is spiritual sense, “a conscious, constant capacity to understand God” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 209), which we all have. Spiritual sense enables us to discern qualities such as love, justice, mercy, goodness, purity, and so on as spiritual, not material. These spiritual qualities define both God’s nature and our inherent nature as God’s creation.

Through this lens of spiritual sense we start to comprehend the unlimited nature of God as infinite Spirit—that God is not confined within the limits of a material time-space framework, but fills all space at all times. This opens up what Christ Jesus meant when he said we should worship God “in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23), and makes practical what the Apostle Paul meant when he said, “In [God] we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28).

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