In the first chapter of Genesis we read, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Since the eternality of God and His creation admits of no beginning or ending, we may say: In the eternal, God reveals the heaven and the earth, and He sees everything that He makes and pronounces it good. God's creation being eternal and unchangeable, it is very good today and forevermore.
Moses declared, "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations," or one might say, Divine consciousness, "thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations." Let us lay aside the human sense of man and claim the spiritual reality, which is our true individual being. Christian Science reveals what we really are; and that which we really are, we always have been and shall always continue to be. Man coexists eternally with God. From all eternity we have existed with Him and throughout all eternity we shall continue to exist.
"Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." This sentence from the Lord's Prayer has been spiritually interpreted by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 17) to signify, "Enable us to know,—as in heaven, so on earth,—God is omnipotent, supreme." When we are constantly conscious of God's omnipotence and supremacy, when our spiritual realization enables us to know that God's infinite presence is the only presence, we experience heaven here and now. for Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is not a locality—some place to go to —but is within us, within our consciousness. Where God is, heaven is, and God is everywhere. "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all," writes Mrs. Eddy (ibid., p. 468). Mind is eternally expressed, infinitely evident, glorious, powerful, and eternally governing all. It is our clear comprehension of this spiritual fact that heals, restores, regenerates, and brings heaven upon earth.
