Certainly at no time in the world's history has a greater opportunity been presented for spiritual thinkers to bless and benefit their fellow men, for through Christian Science the redeeming and saving Christ has been revealed. To us has been revealed the demonstrable understanding of God's omnipotence and the possibility of saving mankind from destruction through the power of divine Love.
But when one contemplates the mortally mental picture that the world and confused humanity present, perhaps the suggestion may come: "Well, what can I do about it? I am only one." In Christian Science we should remember that each one of us is a very important one—one to whom has come the truth of being, the perfection of being, one who knows man's oneness with God right now. In Christian Science spiritual perception does not permit us to accept the mortal picture as real. We know that from the altitude of true being—and this is the only spiritually scientific approach—the world conditions, no matter what frightening form they may try to assume, are a lie about God and His infinite, perfect being and must be denied reality in the same way that the belief of disease must be denied. Knowing the truth of God's omnipotence and omnipresence enables us to deny all reality to the erroneous picture; in fact, the truth declared is of itself a denial of the lie.
Our spiritual knowing today is expressed in the revelation and unfoldment of divine ideas. These ideas naturally represent the omnipotence of God, and we must accord to this spiritual knowing, or prayer, all the power and effectiveness it is entitled to have. One's alertness and readiness to do this also bring an assurance of one's own protection and safety.
