The Bible is a virtual testament to the many ways in which God delivers humanity from enemies, afflictions, and even itself. When the children of Israel were delivered from the Egyptians at the Red Sea, Daniel from the lions, and the Hebrew boys from the flames, it was God who answered their need. King Hezekiah even said, “With us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles” (II Chronicles 32:8).
But a simple reading of these accounts can leave us with a false impression of how the Almighty saves and protects us. Spiritual discernment reveals a God who is far more than an arbiter of human events, and prayer as much more than a request for Him to be so. A true understanding of God through Christian Science reveals deliverance to be more than some hoped-for future salvation. It is the demonstration of our oneness with God and our consequent invulnerability to threats of any kind, whether they take the form of a pursuing army, hungry lions, an intimidating boss, a fearful financial predicament, an advancing storm, or any other danger.
Christian Science offers a strikingly different view of deliverance than the conventional one of having a human crisis set right. Deliverance is an uncompromising affirmation of the immutability of God’s perfection, where affliction is unknown and harmony reigns supreme—as described in the first chapter of Genesis.
