A little chap was disobedient and was sent to his room by his mother, who admonished him to think of God. He knew how to do this because he was a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School. Later when his mother asked how he was thinking, he stretched his arms wide, smiled brightly, and said, "Oh, I think so-o-o big!"
What a spur this is to any of us who may be in trouble to turn to God and "think big"—that is, to realize the infinity of God's presence in order to rout the miseries of physical sense impositions! Every thought of God makes evil or error just that much less, because it replaces the seeming reality of mortal testimony with the evidence of the presence of God. When one looks at the stellar universe, the extent of which cannot be seen with the human eye or even with the most powerful telescope, and tries to calculate the millions of miles between the stars and planets and our earth, a feeling of immensity sweeps over one that cannot be put into words. We are in awe of the grandeur that stretches on and on and on overwhelmingly. But Christian Science teaches that the magnitude and grandeur of the physical universe is but a hint of the infinitude of the universe of boundless Spirit.
God's spiritual universe, depicted in the first chapter of Genesis in the Holy Scriptures and explained in the chapter on Genesis in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, reveals the real creation of Mind and ideas, or infinity. Christian Scientists understand that infinity connotes not a static immensity but the unfolding here and now of the reality and magnitude, the boundlessness and measurelessness, of perfect creation; the completeness of divine Mind and its ideas; the infinite presence of God, Spirit, revealing man as the highest idea of His creation. From this sublime viewpoint one grasps in increasing measure the omnipotence of the Mind, or intelligence, that has created all. In sacred moments of spiritual enlightenment the mounting thought beholds what has seemed far-off and theoretical to be real here and now.
