Greater Love for All Mankind

I’m so grateful to learn through Christian Science that the best way to love anyone, is not to see them as a mortal personality. I must say, over the years, this has not been easy, but it is a worthwhile practice. When I look at everything that comes to us that we are able to overcome, it is because of some understanding of our spirituality, our oneness with God, our true being as God’s image and likeness. That is how we are able to separate the lies of the negative suggestions we are bombarded with about ourselves and others, about places and circumstances that are far from what God knows.

Mrs. Eddy writes, “In some way, sooner or later, all must rise superior to materiality, and suffering is oft the divine agent in this elevation. ‘All things work together for good to them that love God,’ is the dictum of Scripture.” I don’t think I really paid attention to that before; but, the essence of this is so appropriate at this time.

It is wonderful to hear people say that we must all love each other and learn to love more. Jesus tells us to “love one another.” It is that daily practice of kindness toward one another. I have learned now that the most we can do is to try to pray for others with this understanding.

I’m so grateful that Mrs. Eddy never gives us instruction without telling us how to do it. I so much more appreciate the Scientific Statement of Being, that clearly tells us how we can love ourselves and love everybody else in the right way, uplifting everyone from this sense of material being and all the false beliefs that we can be subject to when we see ourselves incorrectly. It states, “Question. — What is the scientific statement of being? Answer. — 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.” (Science and Health, page 468.) I’m so grateful to Mary Baker Eddy for this, because this is really what helps us love our neighbor as ourselves. She gave this to us, so we can see ourselves correctly and love others the same way, the way God sees us. This is the perfect way of loving ourselves and the whole of mankind.