HOW many of us are waiting until tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year for some kind of good? Are we looking to the future to bring us some desired affluence, or health, or peace of mind? Are we building our hopes and dreams around some future event? Then what of the present, today, now? What are we doing, believing, and experiencing now?
The answers to those questions are important. A study of a Bible passage from I John (3:2), "Now are we the sons of God," may help us to find the answers. John does not say that some time in the future we shall be the sons of God, but that "now are we the sons of God," the blessed sons of God. Now are we one with our Father-Mother God as His reflection, and now are we individually able to express and experience the infinite good which divine Love is supplying to each of us.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we find these stirring words (p. 39): "'Now,' cried the apostle, 'is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,'—meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life. Now is the time for so-called material pains and material pleasures to pass away, for both are unreal, because impossible in Science."
