The man and woman God made are governed by the immutable law of God.
Divine law controls the entire spiritual universe of Spirit. This law cannot be broken, and it is always good. It operates to maintain total well-being in God's offspring, never allowing the slightest lapse from the perfection of divine Principle.
Not for a moment is the real, spiritual identity of any individual ever less than the image of eternal Truth and Love. Deviation from the order decreed by divine government on the part of any individual is not possible in the Science of being, any more than there can be a departure from exactness in the science of numbers.
With the sons and daughters of mortals it is otherwise. The daily events of the lives of human beings, as well as their health, safety, opportunity, and destiny, respond to the thoughts held consciously or unconsciously in the human mind.
What most people experience is shaped and directed by what is believed to be probable and possible to mankind, and especially by what is generally accepted to be law to the human race. This human law is not always good. Sometimes it is even cruel and unjust. But those who have learned the truth of God's all-harmonious law governing the universe of Spirit are able, by holding this divine law in thought and acknowledging its supremacy, to make it effective in their human experience. They can bring harmony to their daily lives by knowing that God's law is the only true law and that it is in control of their whole being, overruling the belief of human law with its discordant consequences.
Few things can be more important to us, then, than to become well acquainted with the nature of true, spiritual law and to make sure it is always uppermost in our thought. We are wise, too, to learn how to detect and reject the false suggestions arising from the belief that there is another law, a material law, which can cause us pain or sorrow. Then, when we have learned to keep clearly in mind the beneficent law of God— the only true law—the events of our human existence will become more harmonious, eventually approximating, as far as the limited belief of mortal existence is able, the infinite perfection of the universe of Soul.
The greatest benefactors of the human race have been those who have taught the nature of divine law and urged the recognition and acceptance of it as provable in the experience of mankind. Moses and the prophets proclaimed it as far as they could discern it in the periods of comparative spiritual enlightenment in which they lived. Above all others, Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated the supremacy of divine law over all belief in humanly constituted laws. He sometimes called it the will of God, and he proved through works of healing that health, abundant supply, deathless life, joy, peace, beauty, and goodness are not only the will of God for us in some future heaven but can be enjoyed here and now.
The Master showed that all these good things, and more, belong to everyone by right of divine law. He demonstrated that all people on earth can prove this for themselves by recognizing and acknowledging God's government and obeying its rules. This method of Christly healing was concisely explained by Paul, one of Jesus' earliest and most active and perceptive followers, when he said, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Rom. 12:2; Since then many have successfully followed his advice and found it good.
There is a law of God applicable to every aspect of our lives. However minute or unusual a problem of human existence may seem to be, there is always a spiritual law of good we can bring into evidence as we mentally review the problem. We may discover the law in the Bible or learn it through intuition. And those who possess a copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, know that it contains invaluable instruction on this subject of God's law.
This book is packed with statements of God's will and explanation of how to bring His law into operation in daily life. It tells us that God's law establishes harmony through the entire universe and outlaws discord; that all who express Truth and Love must be free, never enslaved either mentally or physically by an evil or material power; that life, not death, is the law for all of God's creation. (For example, see pp. 381, 227, 253.)
God's law of health for His offspring, when recognized and acknowledged as supreme, ensures mankind's exemption from all disease—even from the kind of indisposition said by medical belief to be the legitimate penalty for breaking some humanly devised rule. It denies the necessity for exhaustion or sickness as a consequence of doing some kindly deed or working hard on some worthy project. And it does not allow for passage of time, chance or accident to take away one's ability to be normally active.
Mrs. Eddy writes, "Immortal Mind, governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual." Science and Health, p. 427. When we follow this rule we bring the divine Mind's law of harmony into operation in all the details of daily life. Our acknowledgment that God's will is supreme and that we are subject to it makes His law of harmony effective in everything we humanly experience —and the consequence is healing.
