A SOURCE of never-ending inspiration and spiritual education is found by the Christian Scientist in the first chapter of Genesis. However familiar it may become, it explores deeply into reality, and the Christian Scientist returns to it repeatedly. At the beginning of the first chapter is that wonderful passage, "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." In the Bible the word "light" means understanding, spiritual vision, enlightenment, and we see these words conjoined in the following passage from Psalms: "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple."
No real student of Christian Science has not had moments when life has seemed empty and dark; as described in Genesis, "The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." And then the light came again, as it always must, because "Let there be light" is a perpetual command. But however dark the prospect may seem, the understanding gained from previous experiences in applying Christian Science is sufficient to enable faith to hold to the light and to follow it until we are led into the freedom beyond. However faintly perceived, there is always at hand "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." That consciousness which has once known light cannot be completely overwhelmed and hopeless.
The same truth that shed light on Jesus' pathway is available today. We know that the aggressive suggestions of material sense to nullify the action of good are unreal, for we have Jesus' words, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
