Article March 7, 1914 Issue

How to Trust God

MAURICE KENNEDY

In the course of conversation on the subject of trusting God, a Christian Science student once said to the writer, "Yes, but how do you trust God?" and in seeking for words in which clearly to convey a sense of that active trust in the all-presence and power of good which we gain in Christian Science, a trust which is a vital, operative, and intelligent thought-process, rather than a mere passive acquiescence, the following passage from Science and Health came to mind: "Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God" (p. 419). Surely no words in our text-book state more succinctly the scientific way to trust God, the way which is an industrious mental activity, disposing of all that is false and obstructive in thought, and offering free, full, and loving hospitality to the divine idea or Christ.

Pondering the mental history of many satisfying demonstrations, one sees that in dealing with error the right thought-modus in Christian Science is mentally to declare, and entertain to the best of our ability, the absolute truth governing the situation. The effect of this is, that our fear of and belief in the arguments of evil, of whatever form, at once begin to disappear. Through persisting in this mental declaration and entertainment of the truth, we steadily destroy our fear; and in the proportion that this is done we gain a quiet, calm, and correct state of mind, capable of perceiving and receiving the right idea, which is eternally expressed.

In thus denying the error and declaring the truth, we do not, and should not, outline or try to outline when, how, or in what way the truth is to be manifested in human experience and the demonstration made. We simply need to destroy the foe, and trust the infinite Mind which "governs all, from the mental molecule to infinity" (Science and Health, p. 507), to supply ourselves with the specific right thoughts respecting all concerned in the problem, seeing to it that we keep our thought always receptive to the right idea by excluding from it all belief in the reality or power of any evil suggestion which the situation, whatever its nature, may seem to involve, to material sense.

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