The Scriptural record of God's protection of those who unfolded Truth to men is an abiding comfort. Christian Science interprets this protection as evidence of the inseparability of Spirit and its emanation, spiritual man; as proof of the presence of Love resistlessly asserting its ability to preserve all that has origin in Deity. God always preserves what He creates. Divine Love never forsakes its own idea, and in the measure that this idea appears Love's care surrounds and protects it. God is the Principle, the source, of the individual consciousness that does His will, and can never be severed from it.
God's protection of the good He reveals was illustrated in the flight of Joseph and Mary into Egypt with the child destined to teach mankind the way of salvation from the very evil forces that threatened him. This was precious proof of the unity of Mind and its idea—proof of the immutability of Mind's expression. It showed the tender mother nature of Love, which ever silently broods over its own representation and supplies the wisdom and resourcefulness needed to preserve it. Faithful Joseph heard the angelic warning and became the agent of God in the protection of His great gift to men.
Looking back centuries before this momentous flight, we see a courageous mother hiding her child in a little ark among the flags by a river's brink. The same brooding, protecting mother nature of God was manifesting itself through a human mother to protect the infant Moses, who was to reveal moral law and prepare mankind for the Master's coming. This, too, was evidence of the unity of Love and its idea and of the indestructibility of all that originates in God.
