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"I will restore"
Originally published in the October 7, 1935 issue of The Christian Science Monitor
In the time of the prophet Joel, a great plague of locusts ravaged the land and destroyed the crops of grain and the fruit. At this time of depression and failure, the prophet exhorted his people to turn to God for protection and relief, saying, "Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart" (Joel 2:12). This divine command was accompanied by a promise of deliverance (2:25): "And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten."
Today this promise is being fulfilled in the experience of many who are learning, through the teachings of Christian Science, to turn to divine Mind for support and guidance, and who are proving that the years which the locusts of privation and ill-health, discontent and depression, have eaten, are being restored to them in overflowing measure.
In the book of Job it is related that after many disasters had befallen the patriarch, he was impelled to seek for some explanation of the mysteries of existence. Step by step he was led to a more spiritual understanding of God and man; and finally he exclaimed, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee”: (Job 42:5). As Job thus gained a higher concept of God and man, prosperity and freedom followed. The record states (Job 42:10), “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.” Thus Job's experience is an illustration of the effectual application of divine law.
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