We hear continually these days about our rights. When nations and their leaders become tyrannical, is it not because they fail to understand the true rights of man? In family relationships the question is often, Who has the right? A correct understanding of the rights which God decrees for His idea, man, brings the necessary peace and adjustment. Disease is proved unreal when we realize that God gives us the divine right to health and harmony.
What a blessing it is to understand our rights, to claim them as our heritage! In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy tells us (p. 381), "Ignorant of our God-given rights, we submit to unjust decrees, and the bias of education enforces this slavery." When we believe that man is born into matter, under material laws, subject to many mortal minds, our human experiences become frustrated and limited. We can be free from this bondage by living in obedience to the Christ, and by realizing that we are spiritual ideas, created by God, Principle, subject only to His divine law.
Without spiritual understanding we are not aware that God's law enables us to obtain our true rights and thus to bring peace and joy into our lives.
