Amos writes, "Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me;" and then he goes on to say: "Behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. ...Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel." This was a wonderful promise that God gave to His people through His prophet,—a promise which all may rejoice in, and yet which most mortals are prone to cry out against. This vision of Amos speaks so plainly of the exactitude of God, that it brings one quickly to realize the unchangeable, immutable nature of Deity and of His invincible law.
Now, this exactness, this scientific, invariable perfection of God, is the hope of the sinner, the comfort of the sorrowing, the joy of the saint. Were our Father in heaven less than the unalterable, perfect One, where would there be any stability, anything on which we could rely? Where would there be any possibility of security or trust? When one seems to be in the depths of woe, because matter and its beliefs appear real and tormenting, God then may seem very far away; and the very enormity of the sense of evil argues for its own reality, for its own continuance. As one turns to God at such a time,—unless one clearly understands the infinitude of His exactitude,—error will attempt to present this very quality as a reason for hopelessness. Mortal belief will argue: How can you ever hope to get close to God when He is so changeless, so perfect? He is "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever," and is of too pure eyes to behold iniquity. His law is inviolable. He can have nothing in His sight which is less than absolutely good. Then how can He have anything to do with you who have fallen into such evil? Without the light of Christian Science, how hopeless seems the plight of such a one!
With the coming of the Comforter, —divine Science,—the glad assurance has been unfolded that this very unalterable, exact nature of God is the greatest cause for joy we have, the greatest reason for our constant expectation of deliverance from evil. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 364), "Christian Science refutes everything that is not a postulate of the divine Principle, God;" and then she goes on to say of Christian Science, "It is God's right hand grasping the universe;" and yet further, "It stands on this Scriptural platform: that He made all that was made, and it is good, reflects the divine Mind, is governed by it."
