Christian Science reveals the true sense of love to those ready to receive it. Mary Baker Eddy says of love (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."
John, the beloved disciple, beheld God as Love, and his exalted concept enabled him to write (I John 4:7-18): "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. . . . God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. . . . There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear."
Divine Love, God, has to be understood as infinite, for Love manifests divine completeness and perfection. A dictionary definition of the word "perfect" reads in part, "having all the properties naturally belonging to it; complete; sound; flawless." To gain the sense of perfect or complete Love and to demonstrate it in our experience is the desire of every Christian Scientist. Without this understanding of divine Love, fear oftentimes weighs heavily on the heart, thereby robbing mankind of joy and dominion.
