The
wealthy men casting their gifts into the treasury of the temple may well have been astonished when they overheard Christ Jesus' estimate of true giving.
"Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Everyone
has in his heart, whether acknowledged or not, a deep-seated longing for love, for protection, for an assurance that there is a great, beneficent cause controlling and governing all existence.
Christ Jesus
, our Way-shower, was so conscious of God's omnipresence and omnipotence that the Bible records, "They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them".
The
Foreword to the Hymnal Notes, to be used with the Christian Science Hymnal, states, "It is a sign of love and loyalty to be 'instructed in the songs of the Lord'.
