Article September 22, 1951 Issue

SATISFIED WITH GOD'S GOODNESS

MYRTLE B. MC COSKER

Everyone desires satisfaction, but not all of us have yet realized that it is to be found only in Godlikeness. The Psalmist must have grasped this fact when he stated (Ps. 17:15), "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness."

Through the teachings of Christian Science, spiritual knowledge is gained which brings to light the satisfied man of God's creating. Indeed, a dissatisfied mortal is never anybody. It is but a false sense of man, an unreality. The only real man is the very embodiment of God's goodness. He is conscious of all that God knows, because true consciousness is divine Mind and is individualized in man. Therefore man knows not limitation but completeness; not sorrow but joy; not sickness but health; not lack but abundance; not frustration but satisfaction.

In Jeremiah (31:14) there is a statement which is at once a promise and a challenge. It reads, "My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord." The promise is obvious, but the challenge is to understand the import of God's goodness. All too often good is considered in terms of materiality, but a Christianly scientific evaluation of God's goodness discloses God and His ideas alone to be good and real. God's goodness is expressed in the healing activity of His Christ. Principle, which never deviates from perfection; Mind, which continually informs of its own order; Soul, which glorifies reality; Spirit, which purifies and dematerializes; Life, which imparts its own harmonious activity; Truth, which corrects and inspires; Love, which with tender compassion directs and protects—all show forth the substance of good.

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