Article February 7, 1925 Issue

Our Needs are Met

ETHEL VIOLET JERMAIN DICKSEE

From time to time we are all conscious of various needs. Sometimes the need may be a big one, that seemingly means much to our happiness; at other times it may be a small one. To need something is to be in want of something which we believe to be necessary to us. In many parts of the Bible we find loving assurances that our needs will always be met by our heavenly Father.

To remain in need means that we have something to put right in our thinking, something that is obstructing or holding back the fulfillment of that need. Sometimes it is doubt—doubt that our need will be supplied—which prevents the realization of right supply. When we come to analyze such a condition of thought, we see it is really breaking the First Commandment, because it results from the belief that there is a power apart from God which can withhold blessings that God has promised should be ours. Perhaps our need is health. Is not health a quality of God? Can there be anything to prevent us from realizing, and having, that which belongs to God, good?

If our desire be a rightful one, there can be nothing to withhold the manifestation of the blessing. Can there be such a thing as a rightful desire or a legitimate need unsatisfied? Surely, if it is right, we have only to ask for it in order to receive it. To want something good is to want more of God, to desire more of the presence of the Father, from whom cometh "every good gift and every perfect gift." On page 135 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says: "There is to-day danger of repeating the offence of the Jews by limiting the Holy One of Israel and asking: 'Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?' What cannot God do?"

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