WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

Harold Molter

It would be well for all those who are beset by disease, lack, fear, and other discordant conditions to turn resolutely to the ever-present Father-Mother God, divine Love, and echo the Psalmist's cry (Ps. 39:7), "Now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee." Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, recognized and proved the ever-presence of divine Love and its tender provision for all when she wrote the first sentence of the Preface to the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. vii), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings."

To lean on the sustaining infinite is to yield ourselves entirely to God's care and to be willing to submit to His will. It is to trust absolutely in the basic truths of Christian Science. In this Science we learn that God is not afar off but that He is all-inclusive Mind; that we, as His ideas, are ever sustained by His inexhaustible love and are maintained in a state of perfection and active, joyous usefulness.

To the youth who may be in doubt as to what the future holds for him or who is discouraged by what seem to be insurmountable obstacles in his way of progress and achievement, Christian Science offers great blessings. It says: "What are you waiting for? Put all your trust in God and see great opportunities right at hand." If we imprison ourselves in the darkness of despair and uncertainty, we reap no fruits; but if we turn to the light of Truth and accept its guidance, we shall be led into paths of right activity and fruitful accomplishment.

Our Leader tells us (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 158), "We live in an age of Love's divine adventure to be All-in-all." Christian Science is here today to aid us in proving Love's allness and the availability of its rich provision for all of its children. To divine Love and its ideas there is no weary waiting but the great adventure of enjoying the Life divine with its unlimited goodness and constructive activity for all.

To the businessman and the homemaker in their daily activities comes the ever-present Comforter, saying in the words of Jesus (Matt. 28:20), "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." Why wait till tomorrow for success or for the solution of present problems? Life is not a game of checkers, in which one player waits for another to move; in this game the results are sometimes surprising and disappointing.

Cause and effect are inseparable. Because God is ever-present good, man is the ever-present recipient of His goodness. Opportunity is always at hand. Today is big with opportunity, the opportunity of praising God for His goodness, of claiming one's birthright of spiritual dominion and unlimited ability, of accepting the blessings and resources with which God as Soul constantly supplies His beloved ideas.

Jesus has told us that the kingdom of heaven is at hand and within us to enjoy and to share with each other. Then why should anyone sit helplessly and hopelessly in the darkness of despair! Everyone can at this moment and at any moment rise mentally in obedience to the call of the Christ, "Follow me." He can stop leaning on material props and walk in the light of the Christ in demonstration of his true identity as a son of God.

In the Christian Science Hymnal we read (No. 391):

Why search the future and the past?
Why do ye look with tearful eyes
And seek far off for paradise?
Before your feet Life's pearl is cast.

As one reaches the point of advancing years he needs to be alert to the mesmeric suggestions which present themselves, such as helplessness, uselessness, and a desire to join those who have gone before. In the light of "Love's divine adventure to be All-in-all," why should we sit and yearn for bygone days or wait to be transplanted to some far-off heaven? Why not join "Love's divine adventure" and find God to be the All and only of our existence here and now? Why not dwell on the facts of Christian Science, instead of dividing our attention between them and traditional beliefs about heaven, salvation, and the dear departed?

Heaven with its joys, opportunities, and rich blessings is at hand! Mrs. Eddy writes (Unity of Good, p. 37): "Our Master said, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Then God and heaven, or Life, are present, and death is not the real stepping-stone to Life and happiness. They are now and here; and a change in human consciousness, from sin to holiness, would reveal this wonder of being." So what are we waiting for? To die that we may hope to see those who have gone before? In Christian Science we find that Life is ever present, indestructible, that our life is hid now with Christ in God, and all of His ideas live eternally in divine Mind.

Harold Molter

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