Article October 24, 1953 Issue

HE LOOKED UP TO HEAVEN

ADA REYNOLDS JANDRON

God is infinite Love, and He surrounds all His children with an abundance of good. There is no limit to Love's supply of health, activity, and affluence. The law of Love redeems the wayward, strengthens the weak, restores the crippled, and feeds the poor. Obeying this divine law, we are lifted into the conscious reflection of true substance, made manifest in beauty, power, and security.

Christian Science enables us to prove for ourselves that real substance is God, infinite, ever present, and ever available. God's law is a law of never-failing abundance, and our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, makes this divine fact very clear when she writes in "No and Yes" (p. 30), "God's law is in three words, 'I am All;' and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim of another law." These three simple words, "I am All," express the essence and nature of true substance, or reality. From this we learn that substance is not something to be hoarded or regarded as a personal possession which only a few favored folk can attain. It is infinite Spirit, God; and Christian Science, the promised Comforter, has come to enlarge our understanding of its allness and ever-presence.

The divine law of abundant good can never be prevented from making itself manifest. A sublime proof of this was given when Christ Jesus fed the multitude in the wilderness. Our Master's example shows how we too can utilize the same law to destroy a belief of lack. Let us picture that scene as the New Testament records it. (See Matthew 14:15–21.) The great crowds had followed Jesus into the wilderness, eager to hear his words. Night was approaching, and the supplies to care for so large and unexpected a gathering were meager. The anxious disciples, mesmerized by the sense evidence of lack, were wondering how five thousand could be fed with five loaves and two fishes. They implored the Master to send the people away, and it is inspiring to read Matthew's account of what followed. Did Jesus agree that the apparent lack was real? No. He turned immediately to God, knowing that since God is All-in-all, substance is infinite and there is nothing to fear. With calm assurance he said to the troubled disciples, "They need not depart."

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