The Bible states, "What nation is there so great who hath God as nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?" (Deut. 4:7) While reading this earlier today, couldn't help saying "Amen" and feeling so thankful for the teachings of Christian Science which make God's help available to us continuously.
Another of the many passages throughout the Bible that reveal God as the tender, watchful guardian of all is "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." (Ps. 46:1) And Christ Jesus, who was ever conscious of God's unfailing care for His children, said "He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone." (John 8:29) God's constant love and support are still at hand for all who yearn for heavenly help.
Many who have felt alone and afraid before problems of lack, fear, sin, or sickness have found solace, support, and healing through the study of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (page 331): Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation. As the apostle expressed it in words which he quoted with approbation from a classic poet: 'For we are also His offspring.'"
Christian Science shows that since man is God's offspring, His image and likeness, the Bible reveals, man is spiritual and perfect, continuously reflecting the Father's love. This spiritual identity, the true selfhood of us all, is not helpless before the mortal claims of fear, lack, sorrow, and discord. These erroneous beliefs, which seem so real to the unenlightened thought, stem from ignorance of man inseparable relationship to God, divine Love, and are corrected by spiritual understanding.
Mortal suffering is an illusion of the physical senses, a lie about God's perfect creation. It is like the bad dream one may have at night--frightening to him, yet not real, not really going on at all. And what relief one feels when he wakes and sees that there is nothing to fear.
When, through spiritual understanding, one arouse himself from the mortal dream of life in matter to the reality of the truth of spiritual being, he experiences the freedom that comes only from a knowledge of spiritual reality.
Anyone can be free now, the moment he awakes to Truth, and can know the comfort and assurance of man's God-bestowed peace, joy, and wholeness through realizing that man is ever with his loving, heavenly Father.
