In the divine Mind, purpose and achievement are concurrent. Five times in the first chapter of Genesis a statement beginning with the words "And God said" concludes with the declaration, "and it was so." In reality, there are no suggestions of friction, delay, or perplexity, to intervene between beneficent purpose and constructive achievement. Time is unnecessary to conclude the plan of Deity, for divine good is infinite and omnipresent. The creation of God expresses the harmony, perfection, and completeness of Spirit, Soul.
God's man, spiritual and perfect, is no more conscious of unfulfilled desires or needs, of usurpation, imposition, or deprivation, than is his Father, divine Love. The real man is the full manifestation of infinite Life and Love. He possesses by reflection all that Soul expresses. Each one may apply and realize these spiritual truths as the facts of his own true being, and thus seek no aim but to make evident the sub-stance, presence, and permanence of divine Principle.
Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written concerning the Christian Scientist (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 110), "You have learned how fleeting is that which men call great; and how permanent that which God calls good." The selfish ambition for human approval, personal power, or fame is predicated on the false belief that man is separated from God and is dependent upon materiality for existence and satisfaction. This course of human will runs continually into disappointment because it is erroneous and illegitimate. Falsity can express only its own mortality, for it is ever evanescent. Spiritual thinking is able to make evident man's likeness to God, which is the basis of immortality, and thus it improves one's consciousness of existence as spiritual. One should through prayer cultivate the desire to express the purity, harmony, and holiness of real being. Next, he should assiduously claim for himself, as God's reflection, the intelligence and power to accomplish the good for which he prays. Then he should strive to be the man whom God made to reflect Himself.
