Article January 13, 1951 Issue

UNDER GOD'S DIRECTION

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

JACK MATHEW BOAG AITKEN

Having finished their schooling, young Christian Scientists often find themselves faced with many and varied problems. One with which almost all are faced is that of obtaining employment. The alert student knows that he has a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the understanding he acquires through Christian Science that the real man never lacks fruitful and harmonious employment.

In our endeavor to succeed, do we sometimes find that things are not going according to plan? If this is so, we would do well to stop and ask, "Whose plan?" We may discover that we have been outlining how God is to bring to pass the things that we have been striving to accomplish, instead of leaving the outcome wholly with divine Mind. The book of Proverbs (3:5, 6) gives us good advice along this line: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." One of the lessons we must all learn is to be patient. A loved hymn tells us that "God is working His purpose out" Christian Science Hymnal, No. 82), and the Biblical injunction is upon us (Ps. 46:10), "Be still, and know that I am God."

Mary Baker Eddy says in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 297), "A mortal belief fulfils its own conditions." In actual fact, we experience just what we believe. When commencing our careers we have a choice before us. We can either surrender ourselves to the beliefs of mortal mind or resist them with the understanding that Mind is omnipotent and evil powerless. Let us base our careers on the same rock upon which Christ Jesus built his church, the rock of Truth, by realizing that in our true being we are all the children of God, and that each one reflects the spiritual qualities which constitute the perfect man. Understanding man's rightful heritage, we cannot be deprived of sufficiency, happiness, and progress, and we experience freedom from envy, sin, sickness, and fear. Neither can we deprive anyone else of his spiritual heritage.

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