Article January 24, 1959 Issue

"HEAVEN'S FIRST LAW"

PAUL R. CARMACK

In Ecclesiastes we read (3:1): "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." But how often the material senses tempt us to think otherwise! These false senses would have us put off until tomorrow what should be done today or to overwork today through fear of less favorable circumstances tomorrow.

The mortal senses would have us believe that opportunities are limited or that they can come too fast, too soon, or too late. But such beliefs of limitation are contrary to God's law of love, and therefore they are powerless to interfere with His harmonious and wise government of the spiritual universe and all that it includes.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 87), "The poet's line, 'Order is heaven's first law,' is so eternally true, so axiomatic, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics." With every God-given opportunity, we can confidently expect to be supplied with the time and the ability necessary for its complete and satisfactory fulfillment.

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