In Mrs. Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 1) we read, "Rest assured you can never lack God's outstretched arm so long as you are in His service." What a benediction is this! We may well ponder deeply these words, so that we may rest in assurance of God's blessing and protection.
What does it mean to be in God's service? How may we be sure that we are serving God? How may we know that we really desire to serve Him? To serve God means to be the servant of God; to be subject to God at all times and in all ways. To be thus subject must include God's constant government and a complete willingness to give our time to Him; to do what He desires to have us do, not what mortal mind feels inclined to do. Why do we wish to serve God? Is it not because we have learned that of ourselves we can do nothing? Have we not found that without the guidance of divine intelligence our efforts fail to accomplish the good which desire? But when we learn of God as ever present good, always operative, always active, how natural that we should desire always to reflect God or be the expression of good!
This brings us to the question of obedience. If we are in God's service, we must be obeying God. We must be about our Father's business. We must be about God's business, the business or work of expressing divine Mind in all our activities. We cannot obey God and mammon. We cannot obey both divine Mind and so-called mortal mind; for they are opposites. We cannot serve two masters. If we attempt to do so, we shall find that when we are obeying the one we are disobeying the other. Which shall we obey?
