Article January 8, 1966 Issue

Our Future Is Assured

LESLIE C. BELL

Today, with nuclear war a threat, a number of people, especially young people, have reached a point where the future seems so doubtful for them that they rebel at living within the established customs and rules of society. The governing fears are expressed in such words as: "I see no future for us," and, "Someday someone in authority will press a button, and we shall all be blown up."

This sense of anxiety and futility is replaced by peace and purpose as through our study of Christian Science we grow in the understanding of the nature of the universe and its governing Principle, God. Principle governs its infinite creation, including man, in complete harmony and order, and we have only to live in accord with God's spiritual laws to experience this harmony. Christ Jesus understood God as the all-knowing and all-loving Father, who knows and supplies every need, and who ordains only good for His creation. Evil and destruction are not part of His plan for His children.

It was this understanding of God which enabled Jesus to say: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matt. 6:24), and also (verse 34), "Take... no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself." Instead of worrying over the future, we can put our whole trust in God as an ever-present help to whom we can turn in any extremity with the utmost assurance that He will guide and guard us in the right way. We can know that, since man is the image and likeness of God, he is governed at all times by divine intelligence.

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