Article March 18, 1950 Issue

HOLY DESIRE AND MOTIVE

ADELE NICHOLS

"Desire is prayer," states Mary Baker Eddy on page 1 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Every individual constantly desires something. It is well, therefore, for us to examine the motive leading to our desire, that we may learn the quality of our prayer. What major yearning is uppermost in thought? Is our desire material or spiritual? Has our thought advanced to the higher aspiration for unselfed love and the spiritual sense of Life as God?

The reward of obedience to right desire and motive is exemplified from early Bible history. Jacob repented of his duplicity enacted toward his brother Esau and in humility embraced a grander sense of Life and Love, which transcended family dissension. When Jacob and Esau met, it was in great kindness and love. Holy desire, or pure motive for good, brings spiritual enlightenment, true happiness, and a higher sense of fraternity.

In the deep desire and motive to live in willing obedience to the law of God, good, lie divine guidance, protection, and healing. Therein we find, like Jacob, that God has not forsaken us, and that the way is open to the attainment of ever greater good.

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