In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy are these searching questions (p. 2): "Can we inform the infinite Mind of anything He does not already comprehend? Do we expect to change perfection? Shall we plead for more at the open fount, which is pouring forth more than we accept?" Continuing in the same chapter on Prayer we find (p. 10): "Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. There is some misapprehension of the source and means of all goodness and blessedness, or we should certainly receive that for which we ask."
Christian Science reveals that divine bestowals are not separate from God, since these are constituted of the true substance and power of Spirit itself, imparted to man. Spirit bestows itself universally; its allness is clearly understood and proved when there is proper acceptance of immortal truth and positive rejection of error.
In the Bible we read (Deut. 30:11, 14): "This commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. ... The word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it." The truths of God and man are not obtained in the ordinary human way in which one gets material things, but rather must be spiritually sought, accepted, and expressed as God's present bestowal on man, His divine image. As one accepts and obeys Mind's commandments, he is becoming more and more prepared to accept divine impartations.
