Article November 26, 1990 Issue

Scarce or abundant?

God's infinite resources are as near as prayer—and more plentiful than whatever problems we may face.

Julia Sivori de Montenegro

[Original in Spanish]

Throughout history, since the most remote times, humanity has struggled bravely against illness, poverty, ignorance, war, corruption. Nevertheless, the simple reading of a current newspaper shows that we continue facing these same basic problems today. Why haven't there been lasting solutions? Perhaps the answer is that mankind has looked for them in materiality—by trying to accumulate matter, fix matter, create or destroy matter. But whatever is material, however excellent it may appear, is always limited, fallible, and incomplete. Permanent, definitive solutions are found only as we increasingly put our affairs under the direction of God, divine Mind, under the government of good. Then we avoid mistakes; and things come about in progressively harmonious, fair, and efficient ways.

In order to reach a real trust in God, however, it is necessary to become acquainted with Him and thus begin to understand His power, His wisdom, and especially His infinite tenderness and love toward each one of us, His sons and daughters. We also can pray. Sincere prayer allows our thinking to become spiritualized, to acquire a more correct concept of God, Spirit, and of man, which leads to the gradual abandonment of limited or merely personal points of view for the all-embracing and abundant perspective of infinite Spirit.

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