The Psalmist sang joyously, "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." What a declaration of assurance of divine care is contained in this much-loved Psalm! We see implied here a positive refusal to entertain a single intruding anxiety, desire, or want. This standard of thought, maintaining strong faith, whatever the sense testimony, is essential if we would advance toward spiritual riches.
To want is to require or long for that which seems to be lacking. The sense of want shuts out the vision of present good. According to material theories, desire or fear constitutes the motivating force of the so-called law of self-preservation, supporting the individual through his span of mortal existence. This false self-dependence, battling against odds, strives, through its own ingenuity and force of will, to accumulate abundance.
Christian Science, reversing the precepts of physical science, places faith in God, infinite, ever-present Love, in whom man has his being; replaces material striving and fears with confidence in divine power and the prayerful desire to know more of the divine nature. Spiritually awakened thought lacks nothing, but realizes present good. We never want when trusting in God, divine Love, the one and only source of good.
