Article July 8, 1933 Issue

Hope

JOHN GERARD LORD

The Scriptures exhort us to hope, the Psalms frequently expressing this thought. On one occasion the Psalmist declared, "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God."

To mortal sense hope sometimes seems a futile thing, a blind holding of thought to something desired, but without full expectation of realizing that for which one hopes. "Hope" is defined in part as "trust; reliance." This, then, must have been the hope of which the Psalmist sang; for had he not proved time and again that through trust and reliance on God his need had been met? It is this hope that ever fills the heart of the Christian Scientist; for through spiritual understanding he too learns how to place reliance on God, the Giver of all good, even divine Love, "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." Step by step he learns that God is ever pouring out the riches of His blessing upon His children, and that wherever he is, whatever his seeming condition, Love is present to guide, govern, heal, and protect.

Christian Science has proved, and daily continues to prove, the immediate availability and power of Truth to heal the sick, to comfort the sorrowing, and to set the captives of sense free from bondage of every sort. Truth is omnipotent; there is no power opposed to God. Man's state as the child of God, the idea of divine Mind, is one of eternal harmony and perfection. This is man's perpetual state, and he has never fallen therefrom. The realization of this fundamental and glorious truth, humanly applied, must eventually destroy every false belief of discord. This realization of the present and eternal unity and perfection of God and man in His image is the basis of all Christian Science healing and practice.

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