The story was told me of a mother who went with her small son to a railroad yard to see his father, a locomotive engineer. As soon as he was taken into the cab, the youngster wanted to start the engine. So his father showed him what to do. Obeying instructions, the boy touched the throttle, and the locomotive moved a short distance until his father stopped it. Joyfully he said, "I made it go!" But did he? No, his little hand, through obedience, had invoked and brought into his experience a mechanical law, thus releasing enormous power.
Using household appliances nearly every day, we, through obedience, bring some law into action and are benefited accordingly. Turning on the starter and depressing the accelerator, we invoke a law that makes our automobile go. Raising the thermostat to the desired temperature starts our furnace. In these and many other instances a law is invoked and brought into action because we understandingly obey instructions.
We know that the beneficent law of God is ever operative, and yet we ask, "How can we bring it into our experience?" The answer is simple: through obedience to it, which entails understandingly perceiving and acting upon a right idea. This invokes the law. And the Christ, which includes the true idea of all things, is ever present, supplying us with the right idea that enables us to grasp the law.
