From the Editors March 3, 2014 Issue

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.

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