When Jesus said, "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself," he uttered a command that mankind has been very slow to accept and to practice. This command is too contrary in teaching to the ordinary beliefs of the so-called human mind, which looks only to its own thought-taking, for mortals to see readily how to obey Jesus' command even should they desire to do so. Starting as mankind does with mistaken concepts of responsibility, believing in the necessity of continual planning for the future, it seems incredible that Jesus could possibly have meant what he said when he spoke those words. Human sense is weighed down with the belief that it must always provide in advance for sustenance and support, as well as for its own activities, until it says, I die. Thereafter it imagines God will in some unknown way do the planning.
How pitiful that mankind should be bound by the belief that through weary, tiresome years everything is dependent on itself and its own puny efforts! Commencing in early youth to fancy there is pleasure in doing its own planning, it willingly assumes this obligation and argues for it as duty, until the belief of its absolute necessity becomes fixed; and there follows utter failure to see how daily to rely on God. Even though educated religiously in a certain general way to believe that dependence on God for guidance is important, human belief rarely goes farther than to think that He bestows some degree of wisdom and then allows the individual to start off independently in the use of it.
Just at this point Christian Science comes in with its wonderful illumination, showing how all may claim the continuous activity of divine Mind as a perpetually available omnipresence. In "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 28), our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, has said, "He must be ours practically, guiding our every thought and action,"—not yesterday and perhaps again to-morrow, but every instant, everywhere, and under all circumstances. This is a very important lesson to learn, and it takes not only much humility but great steadfastness of effort even to approach its practice. To start in this direction, however, immediately begins to destroy the fear and anxiety which are the constant companions of false reliance on one's own unaided attempts at accomplishment which promise apparently an all too uncertain future.
