“What is man, that thou art mindful of him?” (Ps. 8:4).
For years, I have often read and pondered this citation in the Bible. How many people have thought about this quotation throughout the years? And how many words had been spoken and written about God and man (referring generically both to His sons and daughters)? Before I came into Christian Science, I always saw God as being busy and concerned with man, or God getting along with His man, so to speak, but I still always saw two entities: God looking at man. But when I found Christian Science, I so immensely loved learning about our indestructible oneness with God—God expressing Himself as man—which, for me, resulted in a healing of the symptoms of severe heart trouble many years ago.
The Bible citation “What is man, that thou are mindful of him?” to me suggests a kind of separateness or two-ness, or God, Mind, thinking about His manifestation as something apart from Him, objectively outside of Himself. This is still what most people in the world are thinking in various forms. But I have learned and seen through Christian Science the importance of replacing objectivity with subjectivity. The Bible shows Jesus thought subjectively; his experiences were subjective within him and within God, the divine Mind. Christian Science explains that to Jesus it was so clear that troubles or diseases were never physical, but mental in their origin and nature, and that he never tried to heal a physical body or situation on the basis that sickness or disorder were a reality and a present entity. We cannot start, for instance, with the lie of a material diseased man and then expect we will arrive at the spiritual truth about man. The revelation and understanding of the one infinite spiritual man, as God manifesting His perfect self, heals the belief in sickness, corporeality, and physicality.
