Picture, if you will, a people under the complete control of divine wisdom and Love, a people governed by one law only, the law of God. What freedom they would enjoy! What security they would feel! Under such government perpetual harmony would reign. There would be no mistakes, no accidents, no indecision or wrong decisions. There would be no anxiety and no fear. There would be no immaturity and no age. There would be no lack, no sin, no suffering, and no death. Under divine sovereignty justice and mercy would reign, and everyone would express intelligence and kindness.
Does such a harmonious state seem a Utopian dream? Christian Science has come to assure us that this harmonious state is a divine reality; it is experienced in proportion as we understand and live the Christianity which Jesus taught and practiced, by evincing the qualities of divine Mind, Love. Right now God, good, is the only power; and God's law of wisdom and love is the only law. This power or law is forever operative and ever present. But to be enjoyed, it must be demonstrated or made practical. Just as the law of mathematics, which is always operative and present, must be applied to specific problems, so the law of God must be proved in all the affairs of our daily life.
What, we may ask, hides the operation of divine government, and how can we hasten our present recognition of the control of divine law? All misrule or inharmony stems from a misconception of Deity and from a subsequent violation of the two great commandments set forth by the Master, Christ Jesus (Matt. 22:37, 39): "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," and, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." If we believe in God as a magnified mortal, susceptive to mortal weaknesses, we at once open the way for discordant government. And if we enthrone evil as a power coequal with good, we simultaneously become subject to vacillating authority. In order to be more conscious of the perpetual control of righteous law, it is requisite that we constantly improve our concept of God, and at the same time break down altars to all false gods. We must daily strive for a better understanding of the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of good. We must work to see more clearly that God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, and infinite. We must pray for greater revelation of the seven synonyms of God—Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love—given us by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," particularly any of them which we feel we do not understand.
