Article March 16, 2020 Issue

Why God is relevant

Evan Mehlenbacher

While attending college after high school, I spent time wondering what to do with the rest of my life. One afternoon while entertaining career possibilities, I thought about becoming a full-time Christian Science healer. No sooner did the option pop into my mind than I thought: “You can’t do that. You would have to think about God all the time!”

Thinking about God all the time felt ludicrous. There were so many other demands to think about, such as earning a living, paying the bills, staying healthy, and maybe getting married someday and having children. The list of things to do other than ponder the realities of divine Spirit seemed enormous and endless.

But as I considered the scope of God as being infinite, all-inclusive, and omnipresent, as I had learned from my upbringing and my study of Christian Science, I remembered that God is not a sideshow. God is the main event. God is Life. God is All. To accept the omnipresence and omnipotence of God is to see that there isn’t anything else to think about; I realized that everything good is included within God’s infinitude. It was a jolting perspective to consider.

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