Among the many inspired sayings of St. John perhaps the most profound is the simple declaration found in one of his epistles (I John 4:16), "God is love." And in her article entitled "Love" Mary Baker Eddy amplifies the meaning of Love thus (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 249, 250): "What a word! I am in awe before it. Over what worlds on worlds it hath range and is sovereign! the underived, the incomparable, the infinite All of good, the alone God, is Love."
Here Mrs. Eddy makes clear that divine Love is supreme—that Love reigns and is sovereign. As students of Christian Science we should frequently ponder this sublime truth and reflect it in our daily living, for we understand the nature of Love only as we feel God's love in our hearts and express it to others.
It will help us gain a clearer sense of God as Love if we declare and seek to realize the spiritual fact that God is ever with us, that we are never alone, and that we do feel the warmth and comfort of His care. Let us think of God as our divine Parent, who meets our every need and supplies all good. Because He is ever conscious of us as His spiritual children, we, as God's reflection, are likewise conscious of Him as ever-present, infinite Truth, Life, and Love. As we become convinced of these truths, the mortal belief that we are separated from God, good, is destroyed.
