Article January 17, 1970 Issue

Make Time Your Servant

JOHN LEE

How often people claim that they need more time to accomplish what they have to do! Others declare that they have too much time but not enough work to do. Throughout their lives a great many people face the frustrations and limitations suggested by the material sense testimony of time.

Belief in shortage of time tends to limit our spiritual activities. The fact is that shortages of any kind do not represent God, Mind, but mortal limitations. Through Christian Science we can gain the spiritual understanding that, when utilized, will gradually free us from the bondage of time. From the standpoint of spiritual reality, time is a fallacy, and we must not allow it to hinder or limit the good we would do.

Mrs. Eddy gives this definition of "time" in the Glossary of Science and Health: "Mortal measurements; limits, in which are summed up all human acts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, knowledge; matter; error; that which begins before, and continues after, what is termed death, until the mortal disappears and spiritual perfection appears." Science and Health, p. 595; As we accept the truth of this definition, we make time the servant, never the master. The real man, God's eternal expression, is governed by God, not by time.

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