Editorial November 17, 1956 Issue

THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT OF GOD

John J. Selover

While one's thoughts at this season are filled with thanksgiving for abundant harvests, good business, happy relationships, healthy lives, may we pause in grateful acknowledgment of the power of God, Spirit, that underlies this largess. When one believes that abundance is the sole result of his own special knowledge, wisdom, foresight, energy, or good fortune apart from God, he limits himself and his opportunities. Christian Science turns one to the true source of all bountifulness, to God, Life. Truth, and Love.

God supplies continuously every spiritual idea requisite to the full enjoyment of immortal being. These ideas are revealed to human consciousness through spiritual understanding and result in abundant supply, health, success.

Paul in the ninth chapter of his second letter to the Corinthians speaks of "being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God" (verse 11), and he concludes the chapter in these words (verse 15): "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift." That which is unspeakable is indescribable in human language. While material gifts can be described by reference to size, weight, color, form, or some distinguishing marks, the gift of God is visible and appreciable only to spiritual sense. One cannot measure with a line or weigh on a scale the attributes of God, His love, purity, wisdom, understanding, being, substance. The most potent evidence of thanksgiving for the indefinable gifts of God is in activating them in our daily affairs.

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