Article October 30, 1926 Issue

Overcoming Limitation

M. ELSIE ADAMSON

Following upon the belief in the reality of matter is the world-wide acceptance of the belief of limitation. Unless corrected, this error will tend to enter every experience of everyday life, as well as into our thought of man and his environment, of God and the universe. How often the belief in limitation hampers our work and hinders our demonstration until vigorously handled and destroyed! But since man is the reflection of the infinite One, there is no limit to his capacity for reflecting good. On page 223 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "The fetters of man's finite capacity are forged by the illusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul, in matter instead of in Spirit."

Again, do not some of our apparent limitations result from the belief in personal ownership? We speak of "my capacity," "my health," "my supply," and so on, instead of realizing that man has nothing of his own, but reflects all that is of God. Not only is one's self wrongly affected by this mistaken thinking, but too often we help to forge fetters for our brother-man, by holding over him those same beliefs of limitation. How helpful both to ourselves and to others it would be were we always to refuse to accept these lies of limitation and keep in thought the fact that the real man has no power but to reflect God, infinite good.

In the seventy-seventh psalm, the Psalmist describes many of the wonderful works God performed for the children of Israel; and yet we read in the next psalm that in spite of these marvelous proofs of God's goodness and power, "they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel." And do we not often err in just the same way? Do we not turn back, look at the evidence of the material senses, and thus limit the "Holy One of Israel"? In our thoughts, how frequently we limit the power of Truth, we whose privilege it is not only to read the Bible records, but to see in our midst the continual evidence of the wondrous works God is doing for the children of men, in the healing of sin, sickness, and other erroneous conditions, through Christian Science!

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