Jesus said (John 5:30), "I can of mine own self do nothing," and he continued, "As I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." Let the import of this simple statement dawn on the humble thought, which is expectantly waiting to receive the Christlike message that shows us the way we must take to overcome the problems of human existence and destroy the accompanying sense of anxiety, fear, indecision, and doubt with which we have wrapped ourselves about, often very tightly!

Not for a single moment did Jesus of Nazareth think that the healing power which he expressed and the words of comfort which he spoke to the weary and downcast originated with him. Had he believed this, pride, self-importance, human means and methods would have crept into his thinking. The knowledge that the healing power was entirely outside his human self resulted in his quiet and successful earthly mission of healing and teaching.

Mary Baker Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 1) that "humility is the steppingstone to a higher recognition of Deity." This quality, which Jesus had in such abundance, is needed to meet and master the arrogance that so often demands attention. As we gain a true sense of humility we begin to see man as he really is, the reflection of his Maker, governed and guarded by his protecting Principle, Love.

Man's at-one-ment with this Principle can never be shaken. That a demonstration, in some degree, of man's oneness with God is important and possible to each one of us, is brought out by Mrs. Eddy in this statement in "Pulpit and Press" (p. 4): "You have simply to preserve a scientific, positive sense of unity with your divine source, and daily demonstrate this. Then you will find that one is as important a factor as duodecillions in being and doing right, and thus demonstrating deific Principle."

Many a seeker after Truth humbly and fervently longs for the perfection of "being and doing right" in his daily contacts with his fellow man. However, human standards are changeable and changing, and it is only absolute reliance on unchanging Principle that enables one to reflect justice, mercy, honesty, and abundance in accordance with God's law. This law has never for a moment ceased to operate. It stands as firm, immovable, and steadfast as it did in the days of Jesus of Nazareth. It becomes operative in the receptive thought which, having released its own human beliefs, trustingly turns to Mind, the source of all true law, for the wisdom and ideas with which to solve every problem.

An illustration of trusting in God was experienced several years ago by the writer. While still in her teens she was suddenly confronted one day with the problem of having to support on a small income not only herself, but also a young half brother. As she had so often done in times past whenever troubled, she went in her lunch hour to a local Christian Science Reading Room, and there she earnestly and humbly turned to the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings for guidance. The answer came very soon in the following verse from Isaiah (45:11): "Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me."

All sense of responsibility dropped from her consciousness, and she left the Reading Room fully convinced that her brother's true sonship was already established with his Father, and that she could let God assume the entire responsibility for the boy's future, for had God not said, "Ask me of things to come concerning my sons"? The very next day from an unexpected source the writer was given an opportunity to place the boy in a school near by where with very little financial assistance from her, he would be in a homelike atmosphere and at the same time could continue his education. The rightness of that move was shown later as the boy grew into young manhood.

As we realize that of our own selves we can do nothing, and as our thought opens expectantly to receive the Christ, Truth, wonderful opportunities present themselves to us, as they did to Jesus, opportunities to help and comfort others. Thought released of self-will, self-importance, and pride stands free and unconfined, and the Christ-light shines through whatever darkness may have hitherto dimmed our vision. How easily does thought acquainted with humility, trustfulness, and unselfed love reflect God! And when we realize that the relationship of God and man stands intact, and we have only obediently to seek and find man's perfection through the scientific understanding of God, the way out of the darkness of material sense grows clearer.

It is a truly satisfying reward to every humble seeker after Truth to discover that through the recognition of his real identity and the denial of the false material self, immeasurable good is brought into his human experience. Mrs. Eddy declares on page 185 of "Miscellaneous Writings." "Self-renunciation of all that constitutes a so-called material man, and the acknowledgment and achievement of his spiritual identity as the child of God, is Science that opens the very flood-gates of heaven; whence good flows into every avenue of being, cleansing mortals of all uncleanness, destroying all suffering, and demonstrating the true image and likeness."