“Know” and “Let”

There are two words which it were well to understand, if we would progress in Christian Science. They are “know” and “let.” For to know the omnipotence and omnipresence of God and the nothingness of evil and then let Truth do the work, is true wisdom.

The writer was once taught a lesson, when she needed it very much, from her window shade. The room in which she was seated was in shadow; but just outside the window the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the trees and flowers were beautiful. She realized that all that separated her from the beauty and loveliness outside was a shade which had been pulled down. She pulled on the shade and then let go, and immediately the room was flooded with sunshine. Then the beauty of the trees and the flowers could be appreciated.

So it is with many of our problems. We work and work on them, and sometimes wonder why the problems are not solved. Now, it may not be because the work we have done is not correct,—and surely Truth has not failed,—nor because there is not health, happiness, and an abundance of good ever present, but simply because we have not let go of the false belief. All the goodness, peace, and joy that any of us could possibly need is here for us; and it is only material sense that would seem to deprive us of the blessings which are rightfully ours as God’s children. Let us, knowing the power of God, rise superior to the testimony of material sense, which seems to be darkening our consciousness, and let the sunshine of Truth and Love flow in. Let us trust God, for He never fails.

If we seem to have been battling with what claims to be a “big” problem, let not our hearts be troubled or afraid, because there is no problem too great for God to solve. God made man free. Therefore, it is our divine right to be free from every discordant condition; for there is no power that can hold us in subjection. God has already given man all, and man is in the conscious possession of that all,—namely, all good. Let us realize that “power belongeth unto God;” and that, as Mrs. Eddy says in “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” (p. 224), “No power can withstand divine Love.” It matters not what name so-called mortal mind attaches to a specific form of evil, whether it be sin, sickness, or death; the name, whatever it may be, is but another term for nothing. God never gave evil power to make man sick or sinful, or to make him yield to it. Error is nothing; it always has been nothing; it always will be nothing. When we understand the allness of God, good, we shall know that where error claims to be, in that very place is God’s perfect idea, governed, controlled, sustained, and maintained by divine Mind.

When we know the true way to solve any problem, whether it be one of sin, sickness, sorrow, or death, we need not be afraid that Truth will fail; for Truth is God. And as it is written in Hebrews, “The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 419), “Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth, and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone are real and harmonious.” Let us first be sure to “destroy the foe,” the false claim of evil, and then leave the field entirely to God. We all have our part to do; and when we have done it, we can with complete confidence in God leave the rest with Him. For divine Love says, I “will not fail thee, nor forsake thee;” and Jesus has said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Our part is the “knowing”; Truth’s part is the making free.