. . . or, for that matter, a political independent. He is the one intelligent and impartial power to whom we can each go for guidance. Whatever our concerns about fair and democratic government, whatever our politics, we can turn to Him wholeheartedly for solutions. He is the divine Being of whom Isaiah speaks when he says in the Bible, “The government shall be upon his shoulder” (9:6). It is He who shoulders the demand to care for His creation. It is He who holds the reins of power in His hands. It is He who, in the most divisive of times, unites us all.
To be ruled by the Almighty is to yield to His divine government—to the one God we all have, who governs His creation harmoniously. An understanding of His rule, even to a small degree, transforms human consciousness, and therefore transforms, to some degree, human events and politics—both of which are impacted by the leaven of Truth operating in human consciousness. The promise of just and fair human government becomes more of a reality in our lives as it reflects the divine. In other words, the ideal of fair and just self-government—which is the ideal rooted at the center of democracy—originated with God, not with mortals.
Journal founder Mary Baker Eddy had this to say: “God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 106).
