Are you good enough?

From the Editors

That’s a question many people face in one way or another every week, and sometimes every day! Self-doubt is common, yet never productive. What if instead the question was phrased this way: “Is God good enough?” That certainly brings a whole different angle to the matter of ability and aptitude. The Bible includes this encouraging verse: “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God” (II Corinthians 3:5 ).

In the light of that statement, we can conclude: as the creation of God, your sufficiency and
aptitude are the expressions of divinity in action. God, whom Christian Science defines as Mind, thoroughly reflects in you understanding and aptitude—and even excellence. There is no need to enhance or induce these divine qualities. As the harmonious transparency of God, you represent divine Mind’s character wholly.

Each moment, this spiritual quality of sufficiency that Mind effortlessly expresses in you is
unlimited, ever active, ever-present. In your oneness with God, you have received not a partial but an entire helping of sufficiency. You have received perfection. You have received pure goodness. You have received absolute spirituality. By embodying and expressing this divine sufficiency, and feeling deeply grateful for it, you avail yourself of it.

As the creation of God, your sufficiency and aptitude are the expressions of divinity in action.

Physicality—a material mind-set—cannot supply anyone with wholeness or purity. Only your heavenly Father can do this. While the world persistently and mistakenly identifies people as material beings, divine Mind awakens you to spiritual reality. Rather than being limited by mortality, you are entirely free as “the humble servant of the restful Mind,” as Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy puts it (p. 119 ). Who could ask for anything better?

The word sufficient means being equal to every demand made. “Ah Lord God,” says the
Bible, “... there is nothing too hard for thee” (Jeremiah 32:17 ). Sometimes people clench their fists and try so hard to be good enough that they forget how natural it is to express God. It is simply natural for you to love the absolute truth of God’s perfection and how you represent this perfection. It is natural to think about it often during the day, and to allow it to penetrate the depths of thought. It is so natural for you to be transformed by it. The nature of God is the substance of what makes you who you are.

In any situation, the question isn’t whether a mortal is sufficient, or good enough. It’s about the abilities and infinite sufficiency you reflect freely from God. Welcome this divine capability into your day, and you’ll see that “God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work” (II Corinthians 9:8 ).

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