In times of a discordant marriage, disease, mental illness, financial struggles, world turmoil, we may feel far from God. How can we break out of this feeling?
The first need is to establish a clearer understanding of God and our spiritual oneness with Him. Christian Science teaches that God made all that was made, spiritual, and it was good. This includes us in our true selfhood as man (male and female), made in the image and likeness of God as taught in Genesis 1:26, 27.
Man is forever one with God, inseparable from Him. Understanding this helps us realize that the foundation of our lives is God, good. Our true oneness, or unity, with God is what enables us to hear God’s voice, to follow His directions, and to be guided, as we turn to Him in quiet, prayerful listening.
Prayer is communion with God. Our prayers open the door of our thought to help us better understand our relationship to Him – our oneness with Him. In the quietude of these prayers, we begin to feel and know the allness of God, divine Love, and His complete and total love for us. He fills all space. In the allness of God’s powerful presence, we cannot feel fear. There is no place for any evil. Our at-one-ment with God includes only good, since God is only good.
Christ Jesus gave us the model for our oneness with God when he said, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). Realizing our oneness with God – the kind of oneness Jesus experienced – is possible for you and me. What does it mean to be one with our Father, God? It means to be at-one with God in perfect reflection. Just as our reflection shows in a mirror, so we are, as God’s image, the immediate reflection of divine Love, forever at-one with Him. It means feeling His loving presence when we’re facing discord; experiencing His power, the power that destroys even disease, as Jesus proved. It means being surrounded in Love’s protecting grace.
Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, emphasizes man’s oneness with God as a foundational point in her writings. In “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” she notes, “As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being. The Scripture reads: ‘For in Him we live, and move, and have our being’” (p. 361).
Resistance to these foundational truths of oneness would seemingly cloud our spiritual sense. But the light of Christ, Truth, dissolves aggressive suggestions of fear. No evil can withstand the presence of the healing and renewing Christ, which is within each one of us, and which we see and feel when we are humbly receptive to it.
Mrs. Eddy writes, “Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God – the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth” (Science and Health, p. 332). We are led into all truth, as we understand our oneness with God.
A friend of mine put her understanding of her oneness with God into practice when she was healed of what seemed to be cracked ribs. She had heard that this kind of injury could often take about six weeks to heal. But she prayed, consistently knowing the reality of her oneness with God, good.
She realized that because of this oneness she did not need to accept that timeline or anything else about the apparent condition. She understood, through her study of Christian Science, that her at-one-ment with God is present tense, here and now. Within two weeks she was free of all pain and completely healed.
Sometimes we may be fooled into leaning more heavily on ourselves than on God, as if we were separate from Him. This approach is a supposed inclination of mortal belief and is hazardous to one’s own spiritual progress. To remedy this, the Bible teaches us to turn to God for direction (see Psalms 86:11).
Man’s oneness with God is unending. Our understanding of this divine inseparability brings healing, redemption, renewal. Then we spiritually feel and understand ourselves even more to be one with God, divine Love. This truth permeates our being and our doing. It is our salvation.
Oneness with God is the truth of each of us. It is universal. It is available to all, here and now.
Adapted from an editorial published in the August 2025 issue of The Christian Science Journal.
