A Little child feels intuitively that the promises of a parent will be kept. He acts freely in this assurance. Likewise, the child thought in each of us turns instinctively to God and is naturally attracted to good. We should see more evidence of God's promises fulfilled were it not for our ignorant acceptance of false, corporeal concepts of God.
Christian Science shows with what confidence we can rely upon the promises of God, infinite Mind, or Spirit, to whom evil is unknown. The Bible is filled with promises of His goodness to men; promises of freedom, health, joy, forgiveness, secure dwelling places, abundance.
Obedience to the First Commandment (Ex. 20:3), "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," ensures the fulfillment of all God's promises of good. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says of this Commandment (p. 340), "It signifies that man shall have no other spirit or mind but God, eternal good, and that all men shall have one Mind."
