Sitting in the Original Edifice of The Mother Church for the first time, I found myself deeply moved. Among the inspired reminders in that edifice of the timeless message of Christianity and Christian Science, what struck me on that particular day, years ago, was this Bible passage, lettered across the back of the Readers’ platform: “Who is so great a God as our God” (Psalms 77:13).
The inspiration I felt then was a very humbling sense of reverence, awe, and gratitude for God. Looking back, I would describe it as a sense of the allness of God—that there is no other Mind, and that this Mind outlines, directs, and governs all creation; that God is infinite, divine Love, caring for every need of every one of us; and that there is nothing to oppose God’s loving power. It was a fuller sense of God’s greatness than I’d had before, and I have never forgotten it.
God’s greatness is not something theoretical. Nor is it something to be feared, or revered from afar. The God whom Christ Jesus called “our Father” is a very real, loving, accessible God, who sustains, supports, and heals us, a God we can understand, love, obey, and rely on. The healing power and availability of God have been proved in the healings of disease, sickness, injury, and pain that many of us have experienced in Christian Science through leaning on God for healing.
