"When I say the truth, it is just words," a college student complained in a Christian Science Sunday School class. She added a bit guiltily, "If I don't believe it, it won't work." She was giving voice to the sly fox, mortal mind, that suggests doubt has power to do something. It sounded as if the material senses had to confirm Truth for it to be Truth. God is Truth, which declares itself. Perhaps the student's doubt stemmed from the belief that it was her responsibility to make Truth—the Word of God—work.
It is amazing how we cling stubbornly to the evidence of the material senses, even when we know their vision is so limited and incorrect. Whenever we suffer guilt because of doubt, we should realize the doubt springs from mortal mind alone. It is error's attack on our God-given, clear perception of our Christly selfhood.
Mortal mind doubts what it can never know: spiritual reality. This doubt is darkness. But since we are, in Science, immortals, it is not our darkness, it is mortal mind's darkness. Hence doubt is illusion, a lie, now. "Divine Science, the Word of God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, 'God is All-in-all,' and the light of ever-present Love illumines the universe," Science and Health, p. 503. Mrs. Eddy writes.
