In the first chapter of John's gospel we read, "All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made." Here is the emphatic declaration that creation is the work of an infinite, omnipotent Creator, and, like its Creator, it remains perfect, "the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." The logical sequence of the Scriptural declaration that God made all things, is that that which God did not make has no real existence. That which seemeth to be and is not is a false and ever-changing sense of God's creation, and must finally give place to the spiritual understanding of God and the universe, including man.
The true conception of God's creation is eternal. The real satisfies and sustains. A finite, material sense of existence may seem to satisfy for a time, but all too soon there comes an awakening to the fact that money has been spent for that which is not bread, and labor for that which satisfieth not. Experience teaches that the joys of earth are not enduring.
Jesus said, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth." Treasures on earth are mortal, material beliefs, fading and fleeting, but treasures in heaven are the ideas of divine Mind, ever perfect and eternal. Heaven is real; true harmony is eternal. The kingdom of eternal harmony can be gained now, and man enters heaven through the understanding of what heaven is.
