GOD will give us a crown of love for our efforts, for our sacrifices, for our accomplishments. How long do we have to wait for the reward of righteousness? The question is not how long must we wait, but how long does it take us to accept the reward? Christ Jesus heard and accepted God's acknowledgment of and pleasure in His Son right at the beginning of his ministry, at his baptism. He had not preached a word; neither was there as yet record of healing.
Significantly Mary Baker Eddy at the early stages of her discovery of scientific Christianity, which she afterwards named Christian Science, was watching and waiting. She describes her receptive state of mind in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 23): "Being was beautiful, its substance, cause, and currents were God and His idea. I had touched the hem of Christian Science."
Both of these individuals had a consciousness of God with them. Did not this make their living beautiful? Their existence was set upon a foundation so secure that the material dream of life, with its flow of pressures up and down, was not a disturbing or an interfering factor in their own individual recognition of life. They recognized themselves as living under the protectorate and having the approbation of divine Principle.
