IT is recorded in the Scriptures that when Jesus came to his disciples walking on the water, Peter said unto him, "Lord, . . . bid me come unto thee on the water;" to which Jesus replied, "Come." Is not this simple statement or command, "Come," significant of the nature of the message of the Christ as it speaks to the human consciousness?
In the Glossary to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 583) Mary Baker Eddy has given us this definition of "Christ": "The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error." In this divine manifestation of God—His Son, the spiritual idea—coming to the flesh or human consciousness, could we expect to find aught else expressed than the qualities and characteristics of God? The teaching of Christian Science that God is infinite divine Principle, Love, points to the nature of God's attributes. Furthermore, Jesus' ministry of healing exemplified in practical proof the loving attributes of the Christ in its compassionate message of healing and redemption to the human race.
The message of the Christ, therefore, is always one of tender invitation to partake of the spiritual power it inculcates and includes, for it signifies and expresses to human understanding God's love for His creation. Accordingly, it is always a message of encouragement, expectancy of good, and of our ability to prove the ever-presence and availability of divine power. It ever bids the seeker for Truth put aside material limitations, belief in the supposed reality of matter and in material conditions, in order that he may thereby be enabled to discern and grasp the spiritual facts of Truth.
