"WHY am I having so much trouble?" a sufferer once asked a friend. The answer was very promptly given, "Because you are forgetting your relationship to God." In our daily experiences we are apt to regard differently the personal or family difficulties and the evils named sin. They are, however, of the same kin. They both seem real because we give them power and reality, as we fail to remember that God is omnipresent good. They are both erroneous, being the opposite of good; and as their nothingness is understood they "vanish before the reality of good," as Mrs. Eddy says on page 480 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
"I and my Father are one," the Master declared; and as Jesus came to teach us the way in which we should think and act, we are privileged to know ourselves to be at-one with the Father—at-one with good; and this separates us from evil, both in thought and in experience. In reality there is no sin or trouble, since God, good, is infinite. As we realize this and our oneness with Him, we lose the sense of evil. The allness of God, good, is the fact, but the temptation comes to acknowledge something other than good as real; and it often finds us without our sword of Truth consciously at hand, and we bow in servitude. "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey?"
It is not to be wondered at that a thing, condition, or circumstance which we acknowledge as real may seem real to us; and habitually to regard evil, trouble, as real puts us in the position where we indeed seem to have much trouble. It is only through loving trust in the ever presence and omnipotence of good that troubled humanity can find freedom from its sorrows, and experience contentment and joy in at-one-ment with God.
