Article May 24, 1941 Issue

"Grace for to-day"

CHARLES V. WINN

Paul , that faithful Christian warrior who overcame many difficulties through the power of God, was given this divine assurance at a time of seeming trial: "My grace is sufficient for thee." What is this heavenly quality which will enable one to rise superior to everything that would hinder his onward and upward way? A dictionary defines "grace," in part, as "the operation of divine love;" also, "the mercy of God."

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite good, and that, as Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 537, 538), He is "Love always,—Love infinitely wise and altogether lovely, who 'seeketh not her own.'" Infinite Love is infinitely manifested, supremely active, illimitably expressed. Grace is mercy, and mercy, loving-kindness. God's creation is the emanation of His boundless love. Included in this all-wise Love is everything that is essential to the harmony, health, perfection, and completeness of that which God has brought forth.

This divine status is the unchanging actuality of being, here and now. A common miconception of grace is that God will sustain us through our present sorrows, but that we must look to the future for health, happiness, and joy. Such is not the divine fact. The Scriptures declare, "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." Light is that which reveals, and darkness seemingly obscures. As we understand our gracious God, the light of Truth reveals to us that limitless good which is at hand; it dispels the darkness of error which would try to obscure it.

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