Article November 14, 1988 Issue

No loss in God's kingdom

Knowing intellectually that there is no loss in Spirit is not quite the same as proving it.

Virginia Paddock Sorensen

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we never lost anything? Never lost any money or even experienced the chronic misplacement of keys? Such losses seem all too common in everyday life, don't they? And there are the far more serious circumstances, like the loss of a close friend.

Christian Science teaches that the kingdom of God is here and now and that we can, therefore, claim the spiritual perfection that would preclude loss. For many years I found this hard to understand. But as I have grown in my understanding of Christian Science, I have learned how important it is to know, to understand, to be convinced that because we are actually spiritual, nothing that is rightfully ours can ever be taken from us.

To prove this spiritual fact requires prayer as well as a growing understanding of the relation of God and man as taught in the Bible and in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. In this way we begin to realize the truth of Christ Jesus' statement "The kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:21. Mrs. Eddy writes of the kingdom of heaven in her book Science and Health. She says, "The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the real Science of being, and so creates a reign of discord,—assigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and death; but the great facts of Life, rightly understood, defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false witnesses, and reveal the kingdom of heaven,—the actual reign of harmony on earth." Science and Health, p. 122. In prayer we can claim, then, that this reign of harmony on earth is here and now and that any apparent loss in our lives, whether large or small, is not harmonious and therefore not true.

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