SOMETIMES the earnest Christian Scientist wonders why his problem is not solved; why he does not seem able to rise more quickly above the fallacies of mortal thinking. Searching consciousness vigorously, he looks here and there for the obstructing evil, only to find that the more he searches, the more real it seems to become until, befogged in discouragement, he cries out for deliverance.
The heart that yearns for God will not be denied its rightful freedom, however adamantine may seem the error. There is nothing in reality that can impede the progress of the loyal seeker after Truth. Even Job, in the midst of his human despair, clung for the most part to God; and as this tale unfolds we find that, because of his desire to acknowledge God in spite of trial and tribulation, there were finally revealed to him his own shortcomings and also a far greater knowledge of God than he had previously possessed. In consequence, he was liberated from error and surrounded by every manifestation of peace and abundance, insomuch that "the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning," and gave him "twice as much as he had before."
Is it not just here that there is a great lesson for all of us? To mortal sense Job had been seemingly deprived of everything that contributed to security and happiness. Material possessions melted away; his children, so close, so dear to the father-heart, were torn from his arms. Troubled and sore in spirit, stricken with dire sickness, even his wife counseled him wrongly, for she said: "Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die."
