Article May 20, 1985 Issue

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SIRVART PAPAZIAN

Sooner or later human experience teaches us that material wealth is unsubstantial, unreliable, illusive. It can bring no lasting satisfaction, because it is a counterfeit of the true wealth that comes to us individually from God as right, spiritual ideas that meet our every legitimate need.

These ideas from God bring a contentment within ourselves, a consciousness of God's sufficiency of good at hand. The continuity of good that we desire is only acquired through a growing understanding of God, of His omnipresence, His supreme power and unchanging love for man. This knowledge, which comes to us through Christian Science, quiets our fears, reassures us that good is permanently at hand, gives us a sense of peace, and meets the human need.

Contrariwise, lack of something good denotes a belief of separation from our Father-Mother God, divine Love, a lack of trust and confidence in His ability and power to provide for His beloved children. Lack pertains to matter, for matter is limited by its very nature. In Spirit's allness there is no matter to evince lack. Lack is an imposition by the "liar," mortal mind, to deceive us into believing that we are mortals in want of matter, or money, and that there is not enough of it to go around and meet our needs. When this false sense of life is accepted as true in any measure, for ourselves or for others, it tends to externalize itself in our experiences as chronic and unfulfilled wants. The remedy is to recognize its falsity, reject it, and claim our unity with God, good, by living in harmony with Him. Then lack has to give way to demonstration of God's affluence, because lack is a lie and has no Principle. My own experience illustrates these points.

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