Article February 24, 1945 Issue

Deliverance from Trouble

ALBERT HOUGH PEDRICK

Whenever a situation arises which tempts thought to believe in discord, whether it is failure, disappointment, unjust personal opinion, bodily affliction, or somebody's hatred, it is natural to want to be rid of it. The desire just to be rid of a grievance, however, does not express such holy purpose, as the desire to find Life's better way.

To pierce the deceptive darkness with some definite ray of Truth's light enables the hopeful struggler to see that these errors are not a part of God's plan. To pray for the cessation of nonexistent error is to meet with further disappointment, for that is but a prayer admitting the present existence of something God never created, and at the same time asking for it to cease. Such prayer does not reach the divine heights of the happy realization that error never has had a place in God's creation.

The following quotations from the Bible are guiding lamps that throw light into darkened thought: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Gen. 1:31), and, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1:3). From these Biblical statements we get as clear a concept of God's real creation as can be found anywhere in the Bible; they are helpful indeed to the weary searcher, looking for the truth that frees from discord.

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