Article April 19, 1930 Issue

Trusting God with Our Desires

VERA R. COLLINS

Christian Science usually comes to us at a time when all material methods and means have failed to satisfy our particular need, and our faith in material support is exhausted. We are then humbly willing and glad to place our hand in God's hand, that He may tenderly guide us out of the wilderness of human beliefs. One of these tormenting false beliefs is very commonly that of "loss" in some of its various phases. The sick believe they have lost their health; the business man, his business; the poor, their money and friends; the grief-stricken, their loved ones; and the sinning are perhaps burdened with the frightened sense of a "lost soul" or the forfeiting of their rightful heritage as the sons of God.

"No loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 1 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Right here, suffering human sense may argue that the loss has already taken place in our experience, and that it is too late to be recompensed; but we must remember that we are seeking relief from our troubles from an entirely different basis and logic than heretofore, learning to look beneath the surface of apparent material conditions.

Let us, then, reverse the old method of searching in matter for both cause and relief and more thoroughly examine our innermost thoughts, as Christian Science teaches us to do. Are we thinking of God as a glorified human being, afar off, unapproachable, and unable to help us in time of need? Are we entertaining the vague idea that God is somehow acquainted with our troubles and is in some way responsible for them? In the first chapter of Habakkuk we read, "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." The Scriptures also indicate that God is All-in-all. Do we really believe this? If so, we must understand God to be Life, Soul, the only Mind and intelligence; all substance; the source of health and supply. And man, as God's image and likeness, naturally reflects and manifests all the good qualities of God.

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