The Gospel relates that once, while Jesus was asleep in a boat, his disciples were very fearful because of a storm which had arisen; so they awakened the Master, telling him they were about to perish. As he quieted the storm with his blessed "Peace, be still," Jesus rebuked their fear with the pertinent question, "How is it that ye have no faith?"
It might be well during times of trial and struggles with error to ask ourselves the question, "Where is our faith?" Is it placed in matter, in an evil power, in sin, sickness, and death? Do we give these unrealities power? Or is our faith a firm and constant trust in God, securely anchored in His omnipotence, omnipresence, and infinitude? Christian Science teaches us that God is All, that He is Mind, and that there is nothing opposed to this infinitely good and only power, which is eternally operating everywhere. God, Mind, is expressed by man in wisdom, goodness, wholeness, purity, kindness, justice, and other Godlike qualities. The knowledge of the infinitude of good strengthens the student's faith until, with spiritual understanding, there comes a deep and abiding assurance of good.
One cannot have absolute faith in God until he learns that God is omnipotent, All-power. For how can one have complete faith in good so long as he believes there is another power, called evil, which can harm him? False belief in and fear of such a power constitute all there is to it, for it never existed as a reality. We finally learn, through the study of Christian Science, that this mistaken belief, whether believed in by one or by thousands, can never harm man, the reflection of God, any more than it can harm God; and when one knows this beyond the shadow of a doubt, he is then fully protected from the mesmeric suggestions of evil, and truly abides in God's presence, where no evil can touch him.
