Article November 17, 1956 Issue

LET US NOT ENVY

FRANKIE L. THOMAS

God is no respecter of person. Because He is just. He loves all impartially. He bestows perfection upon all His ideas; therefore one idea of God is neither inferior nor superior to another. How mankind needs the conviction of the impartial nature of God's love! In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes of God (p. 280), "Out of His allness He must bless all with His own truth and love."

"Envy," according to a dictionary definition, is "chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages." Envy is the result of the belief that substance is material instead of spiritual; that one individual can be blessed while another can experience deprivation.

In James we read (3:16, 17): "Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." These qualities expressed in one's experience bring infinite blessings, or "good fruits."

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