Article June 12, 1978 Issue

Using our talent: spiritual sense

JUDITH ANN HARDY

No one actually lacks spiritual sense. Each one of us possesses the natural, innate, God-given ability—even more, the power—to know Love's nature, Love's allness, and Love's will for man. "Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God,"^{ Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.209;} writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

In Jesus' parable of three servants, each of whom was given talents—five, two, and one respectively—those who were given two and five talents used theirs and increased them twofold. But he who was given one talent buried his to keep it, and it was taken from him. Are we nurturing and using our talent of spiritual sense? We do so as we daily strive to love, live, and prove all that we now understand of God's nature, no matter how slight that understanding may seem.

Divine Love, the source of our talent, is infinite; therefore spiritual sense can no more shrivel or dry up through use than can love or intelligence through expression; it must continue to increase. But by burying or ignoring it we cannot expect to benefit ourselves or others. As we do exercise our "conscious, constant capacity to understand God," we verify Jesus' promise, "Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance."^{ Matt. 25:29;}

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