Magnify God, Good

MABEL C. BURKE

The Psalmist said, "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together" (Ps. 34:3). Never was the acceptance of this wonderful counsel more needed in the world than right now. There is only one creator and one creation. Everything that God created is good. God made man to express His goodness and to exalt His name. But in a world of conflicting theories and debatable human opinions, the carnal, or mortal, mind at every opportunity magnifies evil.

The comment on radio and television, as well as the description in some daily newspapers, makes use of every avenue possible to put forth vivid pictures of accidents, crime, violence, lack, and war, thus magnifying evil and attributing power to it. Christian Science teaches us to be ever alert to recognize these pictures as deceitful suggestions and to replace them with the truth of the permanency of good through the understanding of God, Spirit, who is All.

When we study the life of Christ Jesus, we find that his purity of thought and action and his Christlike living magnified good. He was confronted on every side by sickness, disease, lack, temptation, and death. But he remained firm and true in his knowledge of good as ever present and ever powerful. Mrs. Eddy writes in "No and Yes" (p. 36), "The real Christ was unconscious of matter, of sin, disease, and death, and was conscious only of God, of good, of eternal Life and harmony." In Science and Health she says (p. 286): "The Scriptures declare all that He made to be good, like Himself,— good in Principle and in idea. Therefore the spiritual universe is good, and reflects God as He is."

Through the understanding of God as divine Love, the human Jesus performed many wonderful works. He beheld man in his completeness, the perfect image and likeness of his Maker. Jesus lived and moved in the consciousness of good and refuted every erroneous condition with the spiritual idea of good. In this reality of Truth there is no lack, sorrow, depreciation, or discrimination. The kingdom of God is the reality, and Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17: 21). The spiritual, perfect man is the embodiment only of good. As this truth is daily, hourly, and minutely utilized, we are magnifying good and minimizing evil.

Reasoning scientifically, there can never be anything but good. The writer was in the company of some friends one evening. The conversation drifted to sickness and sin, with their many complications. Error seemed to be growing bigger and bigger. The suggestion came to the writer to be excused and leave. Then the verse from the Psalm referred to at the beginning of the article came to her thought as an angel message, "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together." Right then the writer began silently and forcefully to declare God's goodness and to rule out any suggestion of another power. In a few moments the room seemed illumined, the talk or error subsided, and there was no further conversation of discord that evening. In fact, this problem never arose again, although the same friends were together many times.

The power and presence of God are universal and always present. As the whole world accepts and utilizes the opportunity of acknowledging God, good, as the only power and the only presence, evil will diminish and pass away. This accomplishment is in line with Mrs. Eddy's words in Science and Health (p. 293), "Christian Science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil."

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