Editorial December 31, 1927 Issue

Our Trust is in God

Duncan Sinclair

Happy is he who at the beginning of a new year finds himself with his trust firmly placed in God. Happy is he who can say, I thank God my understanding is such that I can repose absolute confidence in Him, that I can place my full trust in His wisdom and power to direct all my footsteps through the days and the weeks and the months of the year which lies before me. Happy is he who has come to know God as Christian Science reveals Him, even as infinite and perfect Love, and so to trust Him implicitly.

One of the wonderful things about Christian Science is the certainty it gives of God's allness. To the Christian Scientist, God is verily the center and the circumference of his thoughts. In health he turns to Him, grateful for His goodness; in sickness he turns to Him, knowing that the right understanding of man's true relationship to the creator will heal the disease. In prosperity he rejoices in the affluence of Spirit and in the knowledge of the altogether spiritual nature of true substance; in adversity he clings to the Love which faileth not, feeling safe in the understanding of Love's comfort and eternal support. It is because Christian Science has given to its adherents the surety of man's perpetual unity with God that they are able to put their trust in Him at all times, and to rest secure even when the shocks of earth seem to be greatest.

It is an interesting study to see how frequently trust in God is expressed in the Bible. Many beautiful references in the Old and New Testaments may come to one's thought, but the following seem to stand out preeminently. In the fiftyfifth psalm we read, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." Isaiah writes, "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear." And Paul, with that sweet reasonableness which increased with his understanding of the Christ, says, "God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." God's faithful ones, all! How grateful we are to you for these gems of trustful thought you have left us, helping us to express what is deep down in each of our hearts! Yes, we can cast our burden on the Lord; we know that His arm is not shortened; we are confident in the abundance of His grace—for God has been revealed to us as the infinite Father-Mother, and our real selves as forever at-one with Him.

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