"Beloved let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." One who deals with those seeking relief through Christian Science from claims of sickness and other discordant conditions, sees that the great need is to understand more about divine Love and to use this understanding in expressing forgiveness, patience, gentleness, meekness, kindness, and unselfishness in everyday living.
Feeling that one is unjustly treated and becoming resentful because of this is the cause of much inharmony. This can be overcome by realizing what really governs. Divine Love is the only governor, the one Principle. Holding this fact before us, and watching to see that our words and acts are animated by divine Love, we prove that it is the only governor. Then we receive Love's reward—the consciousness that harmony alone is real. With this comes the healing of whatever seems wrong.
"Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" Unjust criticism makes it difficult for us to see ourselves and others as in reality perfect. The tendency to criticize sometimes seems to hinder a demonstration of supply and health. There is just the one true seeing, divine Love's seeing. The real man eternally reflects this seeing of perfection, of loveliness. Realizing this, we rise above the temptation to criticize unjustly.
