Oh, the importance of that little word "let"! If in our prayerful work for ourselves or others we only would get the belief of human personality out of the way, and in our thought let God be what He really is— All! He needs no help from us in asserting His harmonious control of man and the universe. We read in the book of Isaiah, "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." Isa. 45:22;
It is an egotistical, material sense of life and mind separate from God that causes us to believe we can give Truth a shove and thus get it moving more quickly on our behalf. The fact is, the less we interject human will into a case and really see that God is the only Ego—the perfect, living Principle governing patient and practitioner —the better it will be for all concerned. Christian Science teaches us that all knowing and doing are God's prerogative, for nothing really exists but God and His thoughts or ideas. Man has not been invested with auxiliary power to aid the divine purpose. Man, as idea, is the effect of God's knowing, of His self-revealing activity. He exists only to evidence the divine power and presence, and nothing we can do will make this absolute fact truer than it is at this moment.
Paul said, "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory." And he added, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Phil. 2:3, 5; How important to the success of our scientific prayer that we quietly, humbly, gently, realize God to be what He really is—the only Mind there is and therefore our Mind. We don't need to force the fact that in our real identity we are at one with divine consciousness. This is eternally established without any help from us. Each of us is an individual expression of God—the Ego-man—not a personal self-asserting ego. We are what Mrs. Eddy speaks of as "the humble servant of the restful Mind." The full statement follows a reference to viewing the sunrise and reads: "As astronomy reverses the human perception of the movement of the solar system, so Christian Science reverses the seeming relation of Soul and body and makes body tributary to Mind. Thus it is with man, who is but the humble servant of the restful Mind, though it seems otherwise to finite sense." Science and Health, pp. 119-120;
