Grateful For What God Is

I’m so grateful to God and to Mrs. Eddy for giving us the “Scientific Statement of being,” which can be found on page 468 of Science and Health. I would just like to repeat it here for those who haven’t heard it before. She says, “What is the scientific statement of being?” And the answer is, “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.”

I hear people refer to being God’s “image and likeness” in some testimonies here, and also from abroad; all understand man as God’s image and likeness. And that seems to come when it’s gratefully accepted and lived, daily knowing that this is what I am, this is what makes me one with God. And to appreciate the power in the truth of our oneness with God, that alone seems to bring people much comfort, much peace, and much healing.

I just wanted to remind us all, because it’s one of the things that we say often, like the “Lord’s Prayer,” not to take it for granted, to help us learn anew what we really are.

When we know what we are, then we’re not subject to the carnal thoughts, the wrong thoughts that come. From obeying that with gratitude, with our hearts just being so happy for knowing who we are, we can glorify God. It says, “Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (I Corinthians 6:20) Thank God for everything that He’s doing in this Church, in our lives, and having the ability because of what we are learning, to look at this world and all the things going on in a different light.