Human laws that are established for the good and protection of everyone are too numerous to name. A few that are pretty universally understood are stopping at a red light, proceeding on a green one, and driving on the correct side of the road.
Beyond these kinds of common-sense human laws, there’s a deeper, more profound kind of law that I love thinking about: the indissoluble law of good, of God – divine Love itself.
Indeed, we can learn to become more aware of the great blessedness of divine law and say with the psalmist in the Bible, “O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day” (Psalms 119:97). The prophet Jeremiah recorded God as establishing a covenant with His people: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts” (Jeremiah 31:33).
What a beautiful expression of God’s nearness and constant presence with us, acting on our behalf and truly caring for us, as much today as in biblical times.
Over two decades ago, I was struggling with chronic aches and pains in muscles and joints. Although I often felt fatigue, I continued with my normal activities, which included being on my feet most of the working day.
Trusting God and praying as taught in Christian Science had been natural for me for years, and I was consecrated in doing the same for this situation. Sometimes I would engage a Christian Science practitioner to help me, but most of the time I prayed for myself – prayed to better understand that God, Spirit, is the source of our being, and is our divine Parent, who has established only good for His children. God being Spirit means that we are created completely spiritual – and therefore our true identity doesn’t include any material element whatsoever. Our true nature is spiritual, pure, and whole, reflecting our purely good divine creator.
These words from a book called “No and Yes” by Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, meant the world to me during this period (and continue to): “Eternal harmony, perpetuity, and perfection, constitute the phenomena of being, governed by the immutable and eternal laws of God; whereas matter and human will, intellect, desire, and fear, are not the creators, controllers, nor destroyers of life or its harmonies. Man has an immortal Soul, a divine Principle, and an eternal being. Man has perpetual individuality; and God’s laws, and their intelligent and harmonious action, constitute his individuality in the Science of Soul” (pp. 10-11).
As I prayed with these ideas, I could see that the core of my identity wasn’t linked together by muscles, bones, and joints. Rather, my God-given spiritual perfection, harmony, and joy were upheld by God’s unchanging laws structuring, holding together, and governing every aspect of my being! Endeavoring to more consciously hold to these spiritual qualities as law, I saw that they were indeed joined together perfectly to glorify God. Divine law is forever maintaining and sustaining our never-to-be-severed oneness with God.
This higher understanding of the true spiritual individuality of myself and everyone deepened my conviction that material “laws” about our identity, such as those that would claim that aches and fatigue are inevitable, are causeless, powerless, and without a stitch of authority to rule my life or anyone else’s.
Increasingly, I began to feel these laws “written in my heart” and “put in my inward parts” – or we might say, permeating my thought. The condition began to recede in my thought as well as in my body, until it finally disappeared completely. I was supremely grateful to acknowledge and feel these heavenly laws at work in my experience as well as rejoice in the physical freedom that came.
Being awake and obedient to God’s law – reflecting Love’s nature in goodness and purity of thought and action – is as natural as obeying the law to stop at a red light. And it can’t help but bless.
