Editorial October 15, 1984 Issue

Invisible certainties

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

When a baby is born, his parents don't exclaim in panic, "He doesn't have any teeth!" There's more apt to be patient waiting for that first little white tooth. They know that their baby does have teeth, but they're not visible yet. The parents expect the first tooth will appear shortly and rejoice when it does.

Do we have confidence that whatever is needful can appear in our lives, even when there's no visible sign that it will? In God's kingdom the unfoldment of that which is right and good is not just a fairly certain thing; God's law produces good without exception. We can trust that absolute law of good. Understanding what God's law is and how we can apply it helps us to be certain that the appearing of good is inevitable.

Christian Science restores primitive Christianity. It is the very law of God to be recognized and demonstrated for what it is; it's not a method we can use to get whatever we want. Christian Science is the way of yielding to God's holy presence, and thereby demonstrating His goodness. True health, harmony, love, right activity, proceed from God and are indications of His care for man. His Christ, the ever-present ideal of Truth, impels their outward expression in our lives. In truth we actually include this substance of good in consciousness because we are God's very reflection, spiritual man. We don't have to "obtain" the good that we already include. Man has all good from God because he reflects all good from God.

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