The satisfaction that Christian Science makes available to mankind is not self-complacence. It is not contentment with the limited, the physical, or the merely personal. The blessing of satisfaction comes only when human thought leaves its mortal basis of reasoning and action to accept and utilize the direction of the Christ, Truth, the nature of God expressed. It is the Christ that demands of us the full use of our God-given talents, the full development of the capacities that lie within us. Jesus, who exemplified the Christ, said. (Matt. 10:8), "Freely ye have received, freely give."
Man has received freely the full gifts of God, such as eternal life, abundant energy, infinitely unfolding ideas, and perfect harmony. Human consciousness has an inherent right to these gifts, but this right must be claimed and exercised before unrest of thought can be made to disappear. This is the task of the moment, a pleasant task but a demanding one.
Christian Science shows that man is incapable of static good. It is his nature as God's image to be active, to develop continuously. God is fixed Principle, immovable, everywhere and always present as the source of all law, order, and effect. It is from His self-existence and from the ideas that flow from this existence that man has all good and not from His bringing these ideas newly into existence. Mankind experience good when they actively utilize the ideas that exist because God is.
