Article November 14, 1903 Issue

Is Our Door Open?

ZEBULINE H. BECK.

In the Science of Mind our thought should be to make our demands equal the supply. Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." The supply is constantly pouring forth, and our duty is to put forth our energies to seize all that is included in our birthright. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness [rightness]; and all these things shall be added unto you." Delays are not necessarily denials, but tests of our patience and steadfastness, through which we may be ushered into a larger sense of love.

By recognizing the fact that man is sustained and governed by the immutable laws of divine Love, we open the door of our consciousness for its blessings. Turning from the sense of supply in materiality to the glorious thought of the all-inclusiveness of divine Mind, our door is opened wide to the reception of the entirety of our birthright as children of God. We should ask ourselves, "Is my door open?" If we are placing our confidence solely or partially upon personality or circumstance, we are transgressing the First Commandment, we are withholding from divine Mind the allegiance which is His due. When doubt or fear attempt to becloud our trust in our ability to reflect sufficiently the dominion of Mind, we should turn to the benign thought expressed in Jesus' beautiful words, "Consider the lilies," and know that God does govern.

The promise is "before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." This should show us plainly that out from the inexhaustible source of Love, good is constantly pouring forth, and all we have to do is to keep our door open. All the sense of lack that is in the world sprang from the belief of the creation of a material man who originated in dust. Therefore to lay the axe at the root of poverty, each must be persistent in the declaraton of his immortal sonship, his oneness with God, in whom all things consist, and they cannot be material, but spiritual from the very nature of their true origin, Spirit.

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