“If Christ, Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no other commemoration is requisite, for demonstration is Immanuel, or God with us; and if a friend be with us, why need we memorials of that friend?”
Last Sunday at our Roundtable what stood out to me was the importance that we feel God as our best friend. That we shouldn’t limit Him, because He is a very present help for what ever we need. For many years I admired people who felt God as a friend. I wanted so much to feel this. At the time my sense of God felt cold and distant. Since using the practical principles I am learning here I am slowing feeling God’s presence. It was read from Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy that God is, “near those that adore Him.” Therefore the importance of praising and feeling gratitude of all that God is and does. To me this explains why we do not need memorials and symbols if we feel God with us. Mrs. Eddy wrote in her Communion Hymn, “Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless.” She also tells us in Misc. we must make God our first acquaintance.
Webster’s 1828
Adore:
to honor, reverence or glorify; to be magnificent or glorious, to magnify.
Friend:
1. One who is attached to another by affection; one who entertains for another sentiments of esteem, respect and affection, which lead him to desire his company, and to seek to promote his happiness and prosperity;
2. a companion.
“We must talk more closely with God, bring Him nearer to us, more like the old style of praying. We must feel and know that God is what we live in, like the atmosphere or the sunlight. It is all about us. We must rest more in God.” by Mary Baker Eddy from Watches Prayers and Arguments