One day on my morning walk, I found myself singing the hymn “I walk with Love along the way” (Minny M. H. Ayers, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 139). Almost immediately I noticed I was imagining God and a mortal walking along as two separate entities. That’s when I realized how easy it is to get caught up in the belief that man is not at one with God, and how often I actually do that in my reading, praying, and thinking.
In this particular case, it had to do with the interpretation of one small preposition: with. We may make the mistake of seeing a mortal walking with God, as in the case of Enoch walking with God, or Samuel hearing God calling. We may visualize a mortal-spiritual companionship rather than a unity of cause with its spiritual expression, which I feel certain was the case with Enoch and Samuel. Christian Science teaches that God and man, Principle and idea, is one (see Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 465). We walk with God, divine Love, as the reflection of His “walking”—His movement, not ours. I am that I am is the one actor and activity, and in our oneness with God, we reflect that activity. There is never a separate, fleshly selfhood empowered by or walking with Spirit, God.
I’m grateful to find I am now much more watchful to see through the lie of any separation between God and His active expression, man. I’m quicker to reject any claim of an existence apart from God and affirm the counter fact: “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all” (Science and Health, p. 468).
