When our daughter was a toddler, we played hide and seek. Not fully grasping the concept, she would cover her own eyes, thinking she was hiding from me. She thought that if she couldn’t see me, I couldn’t see her.
Well, don’t we do the same thing by covering our eyes to the true expression of the Christ, “the manifestation of God” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 295), while all the time this Christlike identity is completely visible to divine Love?
In Genesis when God asked Adam, “Where art thou?” Adam replied that he hid himself because he was naked. God answered, “Who told thee that thou wast naked?” (see Genesis 3:9–11). Are we sometimes imitating Adam, hiding ourselves because we believe we are defenseless or that we’ve disobeyed and are incapable of repenting and making things right? In Science and Health is found the following: “This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man—governed by God, his perfect Principle—is sinless and eternal” (p. 304).
