The Psalmist sounds a comforting note of reality when he says, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." We all have the privilege of utilizing this ever available help. The materialist doubts such aid, and is inclined to classify it as impractical; but to-day those who through Christian Science are gaining an understanding of God's ever-presence, experiencing a comforting realization of His power to help. On page 267 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy points to this potential help, always ours through spiritual understanding, when she says: "The great I am made all 'that was made.' Hence man and the spiritual universe coexist with God."
So long have material theories been nourished that in times of doubt, when these vagaries fail and leave us without hope, we struggle in vain to find any sustenance in this self-conceived so-called universe. How grateful we should be that down the centuries have come the words of enlightenment found in the Scriptures, and that now, through Christian Science, we find ourselves endowed with a higher enlightenment regarding the true Science of being, which explains man's dependency on the one God! We find a firm foundation in the fact that He has already established man and the universe in completeness and perfection. Need one seek farther for help or sustenance than the infinite All, which includes each true identity? Because we do not yet see this perfection fully manifested is no reason to doubt or deny its existence. We have to know that as Mind's ideas we possess an eternal place in the divine plan; and such knowledge opens our consciousness to the ever available help from Him who is our Father-Mother, the only creator; from Him who cares for His creation with tenderest love.
That which prevents our understanding God's protection, power, and blessing is the false belief in existence as material. We now know through Christian Science that erroneous thinking can be eradicated and replaced with the irreversible facts of Truth. The beliefs of mortal mind, so called, whether voiced in egotism or selfishness, are only temporarily blinding, and assuredly will at some time disappear because of their lack of reality. Mortal belief alone gives error a semblance of reality.
