Article November 5, 1927 Issue

Hungering and Thirsting after Righteousness

HARRY EDWARD DE LASAUX, JR.

THE Christian Scientist who hungers and thirsts after righteousness is bound to progress in Christian Science. Indeed, his progress will be blessed with quick healings and positive demonstrations. He will grow ever into more useful activity. He will lay aside mortal beliefs with greater ease. For to "hunger and thirst after righteousness" is to possess receptive, self-forgetful childlikeness, a fundamental quality of God's spiritual man which fills the seeking human heart.

But hungering and thirsting after righteousness is not an aggressive, feverish campaign carried on by one who would storm the citadels of God for spiritual food. Rather is it a pilgrimage, marked sometimes by a struggle by the wayside or a prolonged fast at the shrine of meekness and self-sacrifice. This pilgrimage, if pursued in a patient, loving, consecrated manner, will certainly satisfy the hungriest and thirstiest of mortals; for God's way, though narrow and rugged, is never lacking in substance. All along the way are brooks of sparking water, spiritual inspiration, and fields with all manner of food, spiritual sustenance; and these supply every human necessity at the right time and in the right way.

Hungering and thirsting after righteousness demends of us certain things. We must realize, first of all, that every good quality of divine Mind man already possesses in infinite measure, for God's man "is the expression of God's being," as Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 470). Realizing, then, that as God's children we reflect all of God's nature, we see that it is necessary for us to demonstrate this by hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and nothing else.

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