THE regenerating influence of divine Love transforms the unprofitable servant into one of helpfulness and true service. The mortal serving material conditions and their limitations is not the real man of God's creating, but a counterfeit of the real. On the other hand, man, the servant of divine Mind, is formed in the image and likeness of God and is controlled and governed by God, Mind, or Spirit. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says (p. 119): "Christian Science reverses the seeming relation of Soul and body and makes body tributary to Mind. Thus it is with man, who is but the humble servant of the restful Mind."
The Apostle Paul is an outstanding example of the transforming power of Truth. When he beheld Jesus in a spiritual light, his blind hostility to the nature of Christ Jesus was corrected, and his ignorance gave way to understanding. From being a persecutor of the Christians, he became an ardent and faithful follower of the Christ, performing the works which the Master said his followers should do.
Because of his experience Paul, who called himself a servant of God, in his letter to Philemon was able to give a graphic illustration of the true servant. At the time of this writing, Paul was an outstanding example of a servant of Truth. Though a prisoner in Rome, bound under material circumstances which would seem to hinder his activities and natural opportunities for manifesting the love of God, as a servant of God he proved that neither environment nor circumstances can interfere with one's reflection of good. As the Father, being eternal, omnipresent Mind, knows no cessation from His activities, so His servant, reflecting the qualities and omniaction of God, proves his work to be undeviatingly progressive and unhampered.
