It might be said that the way in which we meet the demands upon our time and abilities determines the harmony and progress of our experience. In the hurry and scurry of a false sense of responsibility, our effort may be on the side of trying humanly to meet every demand made upon us. But with mortal mind's counterfeit of the inexhaustible activities of the divine Mind, this effort is found impossible of fulfillment, and hence discouraging. The answer to this dilemma is found in increasing our ability to discern the source of the demand. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (pp. 82, 83), "In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one." Throughout her writings Mrs. Eddy points out clearly what the demands of God are, and impresses upon the reader that these demands, when met, bring both physical healing and increased harmony in all the details of human affairs.
The demands of God can always be met, and in meeting them the demands of our human activities will become less disturbing and be taken care of in proper order. There is no necessity to divide our loyalty in order to obey the demands of God and also to perform rightly our human obligations. Loyalty to God first and always brings the wisdom and dispatch essential for the proper handling of whatever is humanly necessary.
Is it "the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one," if one believes that the pressure of his work is such that he has little or no time for the study of Christian Science? It is evidently the human mind justifying that which finds no justification in the divine Mind, God. Christian Science, in revealing God as the only Mind of man and the spurious nature of mortal mind's claim of lack of any kind, opens wide vistas of boundless freedom and enables the student intelligently to reject and eject the recurring suggestion of insufficient time to devote to the study of Christian Science, thus partaking of his vital spiritual food.
