INTO many problems of human existence the belief of loss enters—the loss of health, time, opportunity, funds, the human presence of some loved one, and so on. We can be grateful that Christian Science provides us with the means of meeting and overcoming this erroneous sense of loss through the realization of the ever-presence of infinite good, which we name God.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 302), "It is impossible that man should lose aught that is real, when God is all and eternally his." The first part of this sentence contains the definite statement that man cannot lose or be separated from reality; and the second part gives the reason why, namely, that God, good, is All, and that this divine, ever-present allness which is God belongs to man as God's reflection and is inseparable from him.
We are accustomed to think and speak of God as possessing all, and of all as belonging to Him, but it is not usual to think of God as, in a certain sense, belonging to man. And yet we speak of "my God." The Psalmist sets us frequent examples of this, singing (Ps.18:2), "The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." A scientific understanding of man's unalterable possession of all good through reflection is very important to the solving of every problem. It is not, however, a sense of exclusive personal possession which excludes others from enjoying the same sense of possession. When we say "my God" we know our God is equally the God of all men. In reality all the qualities of God belong to us and can be expressed in human experience by us, each and all, as we realize that our true, spiritual individuality already possesses them as God's reflection, His image and likeness.
