To one whose heart is heavy with the weight of some seemingly overwhelming problem, be it sickness or sorrow, pain, fear, lack, or any other afflictive belief of material sense, comes the inspired counsel of the Psalmist (Ps. 95:1, 2): "O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving."
"But how is it possible for me to rejoice and be grateful at a time like this?" someone may ask. Is there ever a time, however, when one cannot sing in one's heart songs of praise and thanksgiving to God? Can evil's pretense of power darken one's thinking to the point where one is unable to be grateful for the omnipotence and omnipresence of infinite good?
Christ Jesus, our great Way-shower, knew the depths of human woe and anguish as well as the heights of divine inspiration and dominion over the beliefs of the flesh. Yet there never was a moment when evil's seeming reality could rob him of spiritual joy. So today we, his followers, through turning away from the temptation to believe in some phase of the dream of life in matter as real and distressing, can claim our divine sonship with God.
