"The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." This saying, found in the tenth chapter of Proverbs, brings to the reader a comforting sense of security, an assurance of perpetual riches continually manifested to all, and "no sorrow with it." This is a wonderful promise, a promise which everyone would gladly see fulfilled in his own experience; but owing to ignorance, fear, and a wrong concept of God, many persons feel that they cannot receive "the blessing of the Lord" until it reaches them when they gain the kingdom of heaven — the kingdom which they mistakenly consider to be a place attainable only by passing through the experience called death.
Christian Science, when faithfully studied and correctly applied, reveals clearly how the blessings of God may be experienced by each one here and now. The same fountain sends not forth "at the same place sweet water and bitter." Therefore the source of "every good gift and every perfect ' gift," the source of blessings infinite, even God, could never be the source of sorrow. If we wish to know the nature and character of the blessings of divine Love, we should endeavor to gain a correct understanding of divine Love, God.
The beloved disciple, John, tells us that "God is love"; and Jesus frequently referred to God as "Father." In the first chapter of Genesis we learn that God is the creator of "the heaven and the earth," and also that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has given to the world, on page 465 of the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," seven synonyms for God, each one of which is in perfect accord with the Scriptural idea of Him. She writes, "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." The heavenly Father, who, according to Christian Science, is also heavenly Mother, is divine Love, made all; and all that He made is good; for Love could not possibly make evil of any name or nature. God could not at one time bless His people with good and at another time visit upon them disaster, sickness, poverty, or destruction.
