Article November 24, 1923 Issue

Man Satisfied

PLEASANT HILDEBRAND

Have we adequate authority for continuously enjoying the satisfaction of living? Christian Science assures us that man in God's image has this divine privilege, because of the completeness of divine harmony; but the struggling human heart may call such reasoning transcendental, questioning how one can ever be divinely satisfied. Christian Science teaches that within the heaven of real trusting and right thinking we find that our Father-Mother God does wisely, lovingly, and altogether satisfactorily govern all conditions, relationships, and experiences.

For one to learn that in spite of false material evidence and human conjectures he may safely depend and radically lean upon the adequacy of a perfect, just, and omnipresent God, is unquestionably a spiritual and real comfort. It is with this certainty of protection and support that one willingly gives up the material sense of substance and satisfaction as temporal and obscuring, and accepts and endeavors to demonstrate the true facts of spiritual existence.

Rejecting the doubts and fears which would hinder progress is not a small part of our work; and that is why we need to fortify thought by the understanding of Truth. The sufficiency of God, with His limitless spiritual substance and power, and the fact of His tenderness and care for man, Mrs. Eddy places clearly before us. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 539) she says, "God could never impart an element of evil, and man possesses nothing which he has not derived from God;" and on page 275 she declares, "All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God." What more can we ask than such perfect fullness? Can there be any doubt that the creator is able and willing to sustain His creation?

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