Article June 11, 1921 Issue

Reliance on God

ALICE JENNINGS

RELIANCE on God is intelligent and loving trust in Principle, not blind faith in an unknown power nor dependence on the human ways and means of personal sense. This confidence in the control of Love, the law of right, is requisite to spiritual sense and the demonstration of Truth for the supremacy of good. Based on the assured integrity of the universe, as coexistent, coeternal, and coextensive, with God, the spiritual and real manifestation of His presence and power, such trust in His infinite rightness and goodness is calm, strong, and unshaken. Divine cause and effect constitute the entire law of harmony for all existence. To repose all confidence in an absolutely good God, is to be elevated above the fear of any other cause or effect, and above the belief of good in any other than the one causation, infinite Spirit, infinitely expressed. From all false beliefs and false trusts Truth calls mortals to escape: "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

In the oneness of God, having none other, the student of Christian Science finds the fatherhood of the almighty, eternal Mind, and therein man's sonship to the infinite, and has no apprehension of what mortals might do, for he knows that man is God's image or idea, manifesting only the character or likeness of his Maker. He knows that man has never for an instant been separated from the perfect Principle of his being, and never can be, but is forever in oneness with Truth, Life, and Love; hence there is no evil power that can sentence man to express other than the nature and Mind which is God.

Of all that God does for man, the fundamental blessing and privilege is the ability to think. This ability is to be cultivated gratefully and effectively. When the understanding of man's unity with Principle obtains, it works out every problem with the Science of the Christ-spirit. Relying on Principle, God's infinite individuality, one is not subject to mesmerism, lives above the trend of the unthinking crowd, rises beyond hereditary weaknesses, and is freed from whatever magnetic influences would drag one downward. Obeying Principle leads to the discernment of all Truth, all Life, all Love, and away from the opposite effects of mortal belief, which with its frailties and wrongs includes all wickedness, all sin, disease, and death, though it is altogether but mortal illusion. Yet that evil is what Christ came to destroy, and comes to-day to destroy, and will destroy, root and branch, that God may be understood as All-in-all.

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