"LET not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me," is the comforting assurance of our Master (John 14:1). Christ Jesus was at all times in communion with his heavenly Father, and he demonstrated the great loving heart of Christ. When confronted with error, he was not dismayed, for he knew that God, good, was far greater than error of any kind. Before raising Lazarus from the dead he thanked God, and with a heart filled with loving-kindness and tender compassion he healed the blind, the deaf, and the lame.
Human feelings are often expressed thus: "I am sick at heart, sad at heart;" "I have an aching heart;" or "My heart is troubled," and so on. These remarks all pertain to mortal mind or to the physical organ. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy defines "heart" thus (p. 587): "Mortal feelings, motives, affections, joys, and sorrows." In proportion as we awaken to the healing truth that frees the heart from all trouble, and our thought becomes imbued with the spirit of Christ, mortal feelings begin to lessen and disappear. When one is genuinely grateful for blessings received, whether one's own or another's, he is prepared to receive many blessings from our ever-present, loving Father-Mother God.
Is it, then, wisdom to be fooled by mortal mind and its false beliefs of life in matter, when in reality Life is God? We may profitably ponder our Leader's use of the word "heart" where she says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 127): "When a hungry heart petitions the divine Father-Mother God for bread, it is not given a stone,—but more grace, obedience, and love. If this heart, humble and trustful, faithfully asks divine Love to feed it with the bread of heaven, health, holiness, it will be conformed to a fitness to receive the answer to its desire; then will flow into it the 'river of His pleasure,' the tributary of divine Love, and great growth in Christian Science will follow,—even that joy which finds one's own in another's good."
