Man Inexhaustible

NEVER was the certainly of the inexhaustible nature of God's care and protection for His own more dramatically expressed than in the words of Jesus, uttered at the moment of what appeared to be his gravest peril, "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?" How could anyone who understands the nature of God, the spiritual efficacy of prayer, think otherwise either for himself or for others? This was the dynamic teaching of the Master, that the power, the inspiration, the love he had to draw upon were not by measure; they were, because of their infinite source, inexhaustible.

The ordeal which Christ Jesus was about to endure, the torture, both physical and mental, to which he was to be subjected, had for his enemies one final purpose, humiliation, defeat for his message, and then the staging of his human destruction. But it could accomplish only one thing, could bear evidence only to one supreme fact, the inexhaustibility of Life and Love. "Goodness and benevolence never tire. They maintain themselves and others and never stop from exhaustion," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 165 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany."

There are times in the experience of men when severe and continuous demands may be made upon them; when the normal human way of living is ruthlessly violated; when, as did Jesus, they find themselves the victims of violence, of savagery, surrounded by those elements which make for disaster and destruction. At such times let them remember those "more than twelve legions of angels," forever at hand in response to earnest spiritual appeal; let them unite themselves even more resolutely than before with the goodness and benevolence which, because of their nature, are inexhaustible.

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