Article September 18, 1948 Issue

"O LORD GOD: THOU ART MY TRUST"

RUTH FAGUNDUS

The Bible is filled with promises assuring us of the glorious results of unfaltering trust in God. In Isaiah (12:2) we read, "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation." Trust, then, is essential to salvation, which Mary Baker Eddy defines in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 593) as "Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed."

The understanding and demonstration of the allness of God—Truth, Life, and Love—is the redemptive process which destroys the false beliefs of the human mind appearing as sin, disease, and death. There is no element of blind faith in this enlightened trust in God; but rather are there love, assurance, and confidence, those true qualities of thought which cast out doubt and fear.

The nature of trust, according to a dictionary is "an absolute and unquestioning resting on that which is its object." The object of our trust being God, we can know that we are really trusting Him only if our thought is at rest, quiet in absolute and unquestioning confidence in His allness. Mind is ever revealing its own infinite idea in fearless, changeless being. Infinite Mind, being conscious only of itself, knows only good and its own allness, and man reflects this Mind.

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