Article May 15, 1954 ISSUE

INCREASING STRENGTH

KATHRYN PAULSON

Throughout the centuries there have been spiritually-minded individuals who recognized that God is the source of all strength; and in relying upon this truth they have been sustained through the most difficult experiences. For instance, during his leadership of the children of Israel, Moses continually emphasized the need of acknowledging God as the eternal Giver of comfort, supply, and strength. The reward of his radical confidence in omnipotence is graphically described in these words (Deut. 34:7): "Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." Surely here is proof that strength and activity are never curtailed by time or matter. Rather are they the proportionate expression of our acceptance of God as Life, as the unchanging Principle of all existence.

The master Christian, Christ Jesus, was unswervingly faithful in teaching and demonstrating that the source of all health, harmony, and immortality is God. He knew that matter neither contributes to nor detracts from one's well-being, although it may seem to. Disease and decrepitude he recognized as illusions, as misstatements about man, who, according to the first chapter of the Bible, is made in God's own image and likeness. He knew that true strength is not contingent upon either rest and sleep or number of years.

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