What are the things of God? All will readily agree that they are spiritual and eternal. Mrs. Eddy has said in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 337): "Eternal things (verities) are God's thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the opposite of the real or the spiritual and eternal."
God knows and governs only His own ideas. As we awake to the spiritual status of all true being, we shall find ourselves dwelling in the veritable realm of spiritual ideas, and shall perceive the satisfying, happifying fact that everywhere we go we find the things of God. In the first chapter of II Peter there are enumerated some precious things—faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity—which, if earnestly adhered to, will be demonstrated in our individual lives in fruitful manifestations. As we read further in the same chapter, "If ye do these things, ye shall never fall."
How very unlike the things of God are the things of men! The human race is laboriously seeking and striving for things material—fading and fleeting things; and the thoughts which prompt such strivings constitute an influence and atmosphere detrimental to humanity. Racing hither and thither, seeking material accumulations, pursuing materially outlined hobbies, and following selfish inclinations, we are a dissatisfied, disappointed people. And as a result of this carnal-mindedness we seem to be in the midst of a sinful, sickly world.
