Are We Watching?

CAROLINE FOSS GYGER

Daily we may have been reading the newspapers, and frequently turning on the radio to listen to the news. In that case what is it that is in our thought? Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, admonishes us (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210), "Keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them." Are we obeying this command? Then we are turning constantly to the textbooks to refresh ourselves with the facts of being, and to recognize and reject the arguments of human thinking, as contradictory and illusive.

When Jesus talked with his disciples on the Mount of Olives, he prophesied that there would be wars and rumors of wars, that nation would rise against nation, that many would betray and hate one another, but that those who endured would see the Son of man come with power. "Then look up," he said. Are we looking up, and therefore beholding the power of the Son of man, as he promised?

Nearly forty years ago Mrs. Eddy wrote to a church in Scotland: "Be joyful in His reign of righteousness; though its coming may seem slow to sense, swift are His chariots of Love. Look up, and you will see they that are for us are more than they that are against us" (The Christian Science Journal, Vol. XXX, p. 285). As we follow the command given by Jesus and reiterated by our Leader, we cease to accept the pictures painted by mortal thinking, and behold the universe of Spirit and the man of Spirit's creating.

In her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 (p. 9) Mrs. Eddy says, "The unity of God and man is not the dream of a heated brain; it is the spirit of the healing Christ, that dwelt forever in the bosom of the Father, and should abide forever in man." This healing Christ has come to the world as Christian Science, which also teaches that "the consciousness of God as Love gives man power with untold furtherance" (ibid., pp. 8 and 9). The power of Love comes to each one to be expressed. In expressing Love, we also manifest Truth and Life, in so far as we individually understand the divine Principle.

Christian Scientists have a special responsibility at this hour. It is to see the truth about man and the universe. Man is always the image and likeness of God, divine Mind. If we are tempted to see man as something apart from or opposed to this Mind, we must know that nothing unlike God, good, can appear real to us. The demand in Christian Science is always to recognize the real man as the only man.

Let us watch our thinking. Jesus said, "Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation." A present temptation might be enticing us to dwell upon, almost to be absorbed by, the contemplation of the material evidences of evil and to fear them. Let us persistently "look up." Looking up enables us to discern the presence of Truth—the light of the world. This light is shining in the darkness of human consciousness and is replacing the darkness with its glorious light.

Christian Science is the Word of God; therefore it is all-powerful and ever present in every instance. Let us bear this in mind and strive to be guided and governed by it at all times. Let us be faithful in daily praying that God's will may be done and His power, the power of divine Love, may be acknowledged as supreme on earth now.

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