HOW does divine Love meet the human need? Mrs. Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 494) that "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need," and that "to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good." All Christian Scientists have to some extent experienced the truth of these statements. At times, however, some of us have not been able to furnish the proofs of our understanding of these words of our beloved Leader.
Lack of the supply of any human need indicates lack of perfect universal love in our thinking; for the reflection of divine Love is good, an active expression manifesting selfsupplying Mind. If we think that all we have to do is to repeat the above words and then look for divine Love to shower its good gifts upon us while we keep right on with our old habits of wrong thinking, we are destined to be disappointed; for love is active, and its field of activity is in true thinking. Substance and supply are not separate from Love, and if the love of God is reflected in our hearts, we must be conscious of His blessings, conscious of divine Love's meeting our human needs.
Substance is expressed through ever active spiritual ideas. We recognize these ideas and receive the good they bring indicates the proportion that we reflect and express Love's divine qualities in thought, word, and action. To love is to achieve, and it is well to read Mrs. Eddy's words in the second paragraph of page 250 of "Miscellaneous Writings," to see if our lives are measuring up to her demands on love. There she says, "Love cannot be a mere abstraction, or goodness without activity and power."
