Article June 21, 1941 Issue

Rising above Limitation

M. KATHLEEN LOCKET

Many people in the world today are seemingly fettered by a sense of lack and limitation, a lack of much that is considered needful for daily living, by limitation and curtailment of legitimate work and right activity. Christian Science shows us how we can rise above these claims of material sense and find freedom from their bondage through gaining the spiritual sense of being.

Christ Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount said: "Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? . . . But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." He overcame lack and proved the present abundance of what is needful when he fed the five thousand in the desert, when there were at hand only "five loaves, and two fishes." He turned away from the evidence of the material senses and perceived that substance is Spirit and abundantly expressed in God's universe. He knew that God is the loving Father of all, and that man reflects all that the Father expresses.

How can we prove today that the sense of lack, limitation, and bondage, which seems to be prevalent, is powerless to harm, depress, or affect us in any way? Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 178), "We disarm sin of its imaginary power in proportion to our spiritual understanding of the status of immortal being." Spiritual understanding is therefore necessary. We need to see the error that would claim to cause the discord, see it as a lie about God's perfect creation, and replace the mortal belief of a material world and material man with the spiritual understanding of God, and of man, including the universe, as subject only to Him.

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