Watching Point 433

433 — WATCH that you bear in mind the amplitude and affluence of our God — the omnipotent power that is yours to work with in Science. In the story of the “Thief of Baghdad” the boy opened a bottle from which came an enormous genie, in the form of a huge servant that, in gratitude for his release, obeyed the boy’s slightest wish. Christian Science is like a bottle which, when we open it through understanding and demonstration, puts infinite power at our disposal — but only to do good.

When you think of God as a sponge, and error as water to be soaked up, then if error is like the ocean, the little sponge will soon be submerged and lost. But if we consider error as no more than a drop of water on a table, then one wipe with the sponge of God and it is gone.