GOD is here. God is everywhere. God is All! How many times have we, as adherents of Christian Science, declared these words? And yet how many times may the mere saying of these words have lacked the true and overwhelming import of enlightened spiritual understanding?
These are absolute truths; so they can be and are to be understood by all. As one replaces the superficial acceptance of such truths with the contemplation and assimilation of their profound meaning, spiritual progress is evidenced. One may ask just how this spiritual progress is accomplished and what the requirements are. It is accomplished through prayer, and the requirements are humility and a willingness to change the base of thinking, to discard material beliefs, and to accept spiritual facts.
A student of Christian Science once remarked to a close friend: "I am rather ashamed to say so, but I really don't feel God's presence here. I don't feel close to God." As soon as he had made these statements, he felt impelled to do some prayerful, consecrated searching to determine why he felt this sense of estrangement. He knew such feelings were not in accord with the teachings of the Bible or of Christian Science, both of which affirm God's ever-presence and man's inseverable relation to Him as His image and likeness, as the very expression of His being.
