From the Editors December 1, 2014 Issue

The source of our employment

David C. Kennedy

One of God’s wonderful blessings for all of us is our completeness as God’s image—a completeness that includes unending right activity, or employment.

In the first chapter of Genesis—after declaring that God made man in His image and likeness, and made them male and female—the Bible says, “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply” (verse 28).

Because our real individuality is the spiritual expression of God, for us multiplying means forever developing, unfolding, and broadening. God is forever expressing Himself, and God is infinite. So there is no end or limitation to our individuality and its eternal, God-caused activity. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, writes of this: “God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 258).

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