I Would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause." These are the opening words with which Job recounts the goodness of God, closing the recital with the consequent of that goodness: "That those which mourn may be exalted to safety." When human thought is engulfed in harassing fears, perplexities, deprivations, sorrows, or physical distresses, its every aspect presents insecurity, danger. A glimpse of God, as Christian Science reveals Him, lifts thought above inharmonious activity by engaging thought with the wonders of Life, Truth, Love, the forever All-in-all.
As the allness of Life dawns upon thought, the unreality of death and its forerunners, sin and sickness, begins to appear. As the allness of Truth dawns, the threatenings of matter cease to alarm. As the allness of Love dawns, the enriched consciousness begins to rise above hate, with its silent or audible clamorings. This renewing of the mind takes place naturally, inevitably, as the result of exchanging a lower for a higher form of thinking. This mental process is marked by simplicity, when one seeks God earnestly, and commits his thinking to the Most High. Simple as is the process, it is by no means automatic; for industry on the part of the seeker is indispensable in attaining continuous elevation of thought.
Every avenue of spiritual thinking is open to all and leads to sublime heights, where good alone is experienced. "Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals," Mrs. Eddy declares on page 13 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Because Love is impartial in its bestowals, the seeker is warranted in knowing that God has given to him what He has given to every other child of His, namely, the ability to express Him. To accept this fact involves the healing of envy, self-depreciation, egotism, self-pity, pride, indolence, self-absorption, and that archenemy to progress—discouragement. Ascending above these valleys of misery, thought reaches the vantage ground where their opposites are enjoyed.
