Article October 19, 1946 Issue

How Great Is Our Trust?

WALTER J. CONOVER

Spiritual joy, peace, and safety are native to and coincident with such reliance as the writer of the ninety-first Psalm placed on God when he said, "He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust." The first and instant reward of full confidence in our Father-Mother God is a quiet conviction of the present availability of good; for God is good. This inward assurance brings an awakened desire to become better acquainted with Him; and studious application to know God aright, as divine Truth, as Life and Love, results in an influx of spiritual enlightenment speedily manifest in better health, improved disposition, and more congenial business and home surroundings and conditions. The liberating truth, which Jesus said "ye shall know," permeates and purifies all one's affairs and activities, and trust in depressing mortal mind beliefs falls away.

"You talk of trusting God! How am I to do that?" one may ask. "How am I to know God so that I may intelligently trust Him?" The earnest seeker will find his answer through prayerful study and practice of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and with unconquerable trust in God founded Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 140), "Not materially but spiritually we know Him as divine Mind, as Life. Truth, and Love;" and again (ibid., p. 481): "Material sense never helps mortals to understand Spirit, God. Through spiritual sense only, man comprehends and loves Deity."

As the true understanding of God as omnipresent and omnipotent Mind unfolds in thought, the correlative fact of man's spiritually mental nature as God's image and likeness becomes clear. Man is God's child! Man's real identity is spiritual; therefore good and indestructible. The product of infinite Life, man forever expresses soundness, beauty, and vigor. His honesty and sagacity are constant witnesses to immutable Truth. Every pure thought and unselfish deed reflects divine Love. Our trust in God is strengthened as we thus perceive the man whom divine Love constitutes and governs, and joyfully acknowledge both for our brother man and for ourselves the tender and trustful relationship of Father and son, Principle and its idea. The beloved disciple said (I John 4:12): "No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us."

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