Article September 2, 1939 Issue

"The glory prepared for them who love God"

MARJORIE C. SELLERS

A Student of Christian Science once thought that a painful experience she was passing through at the time was separating her from all the joy, harmony, and freedom she had previously known through an understanding of God's omnipresence. Because it seemed to her so difficult to get a clear vision of Truth, she frequently had to remind herself that on other occasions, when erroneous conditions had seemed real, the lie had always been reversed and harmony proved indestructible. When the awakening finally came, a firmer conviction than ever was gained that evil is impotent to destroy one iota of good.

Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 566), "As the children of Israel were guided triumphantly through the Red Sea, the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear,—as they were led through the wilderness, walking wearily through the great desert of human hopes, and anticipating the promised joy,—so shall the spiritual idea guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul, from a material sense of existence to the spiritual, up to the glory prepared for them who love God."

Whatever wilderness experience may seem to be ours, we have the comforting thought that God's tender, loving care is ever with us, guiding us in ways we may not know, preparing our thought for the acceptance of truths we may as yet be unable to grasp, and bringing us with absolute certainty to behold that "glory prepared for them who love God." The thought which is humble, willing to let God's purpose appear, is being made ready to accept salvation. Humility is the admission that there is but one Mind and power, and that man reflects this one Mind. When men humbly acknowledge the omnipotence of good and the impotence of human will, they will find unfolding to their thought the purpose of divine Love, which is altogether acceptable and satisfying.

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