Perhaps many of us would have to admit we haven't actually thought about adoring God lately. Yet the spiritual sense of the Lord's Prayer given in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy interprets "Hallowed be Thy name" as "Adorable One." And the tenets of Christian Science require that "we acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God." Science and Health, pp. 16, 497.
The trouble may be partly our sense of that word adorable; it has fallen on hard times! Teen-agers talk of adoring rock stars or adoring the latest ice-cream flavor. But the trouble really isn't just in shying away from using the word. It lies much deeper than that, and we can see it goes back to a question in Isaiah. The prophet poses a question on behalf of God: "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One." Isa. 40:25. If we have so many things in our lives that seem to be more than the equal of God, we're not likely to feel much reason to adore Him—that is, to love Him with total involvement and devotion. If He is one among many, He is simply not to us the Holy One.
If we are so busily trying to make Christian Science "work" that we haven't really been enlarging our concept of God, we may need to stop and take stock. Actually to be practicing Christian Science effectively is necessarily to be gaining a much larger conception of God, moving increasingly toward comprehending His allness and oneness.
