Although Joshua was able to perceive and demonstrate that united effort, under the direction of divine Principle, would remove serious obstacles to human progress Spiritward, it remained for Christ Jesus, out of the richness of his understanding, to show us that God, the infinite provider, showers His blessings equally upon all. Had Cain looked up to Spirit instead of down to matter, he would have perceived the necessity for adjusting his thought, in accord with divine reality; he would not have succumbed to the evil belief that another could deprive him of the approval of God.
One does not need to compete with his fellow-men for God's favor. He has this favor already. Are we not in reality all children of the one Father-Mother? And did not the Master assure us that God causes the rain to fall and the sun to shine on the unjust as well as on the just,—on those who entertain false beliefs, as well as on those who understand something about the reality of being? It is, however, this question of understanding the reality of being, which is at the root of the whole problem.
Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 275), "To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle of all that really is." And John says, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." Naturally, then, the problem resolves itself into the process of comprehending the nature of God and His creation.
