To the one who addressed him as "Good Master," Jesus said, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." This he said to preserve intact his homage to God, and to awaken the one who was attempting to personalize good. Had he allowed even the slightest mist of earthly homage to hover between himself and the God whom he loved and obeyed as a son, he could not have brought healing and enlightenment to humanity.
Referring to the Way-shower, Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 20), "He at last paid no homage to forms of doctrine or to theories of man, but acted and spake as he was moved, not by spirits but by Spirit." Beliefs of fear, disease, and hereditary traits too often receive homage, though they never deserve it. False doctrinal beliefs becloud the true sense of God, and material theories regarding health, heredity, and character subject humanity to fear and unthinking resignation to evil. This resignation is the reverse of true homage.
Are we not rendering homage to disease, sin, fear, when we bow down to them and deplore or justify them? Evil is an imposture to be unmasked and blotted out of human thought by Christian Science. In the hour of temptation let our prayer be that we may render profound, incessant homage to God, Spirit. Increased homage means increased dominion and decreased infidelity and suffering. Christian Science lifts thought above material servility into spiritual liberty.
