In this modern world there are many helpful ways and means afforded by government, business, and private individuals to provide some form of insurance for individual future needs. Some people who are unable to avail themselves of such measures are disheartened because they feel that they are denied provision for their advancing years. They should ask themselves, "What of God and His ever-present, continuous, constant source of provision for man?" Let them ponder the fact that God provides all that is necessary for man, His image and likeness, who is the expression of the fullness and completeness of His all-inclusive creation. This provision remains forever the same, and man has it now!
"Security for the claims of harmonious and eternal being is found only in divine Science," writes Mrs. Eddy on page 232 of Science and Health. Divine Science shows how mankind can claim true security as his own. Because sought in Soul instead of matter or material sense, security is in God's keeping. Through the spiritualization of thought it will truly be discerned that God has indeed blessed all His children with unlimited spiritual resources which are always at hand and continuously available. Abiding security will come to those who know that as the reflection of God they have eternally this provision of good, which cannot be depleted. Since it is spiritual it constantly renews itself from its spontaneous, inexhaustible source.
These facts are verified in the Bible. This sacred book tells of mankind's recognition of God's great love and of how He sent His Word and healed men of their afflictions and distresses. Again and again God speaks through the inspired word of a holy scribe, telling mankind not to be afraid since He is present to bless, guide, and deliver them from evil. He tells them to be at peace and to be strong in the truth. Accordingly, all men can rejoice with the Psalmist and sing (Ps. 36:7, 8): "How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures."
It is readily seen from the Biblical truths recorded from Genesis to Revelation that God is perpetually imparting divine messages to the receptive thought and telling His children of their true security, harmony, and well-being. Today He is scientifically revealing that He has prepared and provided everlasting, indestructible safeguards for their continuing health and welfare.
Many thousands of Christian people can testify that after they have affiliated themselves with the divine forces of God ample provision has unfolded to them in their daily lives. This provision is presented to those who have awakened to their God-provided inheritance and are claiming it as a spiritual fact. This infinite inheritance is described by Peter, an apostle of Christ Jesus, as that which "fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time" (I Pet. 1:4,5).
Yes, reserved here and now "for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith." God has given to humanity His final revelation of this Christly teaching, namely Christian Science, which, when understood, keeps one in harmony with his divine source. Through Science, God has revealed His abundant mercy and compassionate care, His invincible power and His absolute supremacy. Furthermore, the individual who is imbued with this knowledge can demonstrate for himself that God is supreme.
This Science shows that God safeguards one's health by freeing one from the imposition and tyranny of so-called mortal mind. One who understands man's birthright is free to worship God—free, if he so chooses, to depend upon God for mental and bodily healing.
The Christian Scientist must ever be on the alert; he must refuse to let mortal mind in any guise impose its beliefs on him, because he knows that he is actually in the keeping of God and not in the keeping of mortal mind and its material methods. Therefore he is immune to error's subtle invasion. Mrs. Eddy gives a powerful, thought-arresting sentence in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 3): "Because God is supreme and omnipotent, materia medica, hygiene, and animal magnetism are impotent; and their only supposed efficacy is in apparently deluding reason, denying revelation, and dethroning Deity."
It behooves everyone to know, as a mental and spiritual safeguard, that in Science his reason can never be deluded; that the revelation of Christian Science cannot be denied; and that God, good, cannot be dethroned. Why? Because God is supreme and omnipotent.
Animal magnetism, or evil, in any guise is powerless to overthrow God's government and control. God is omniscient and omnipotent divine Being, ever present to maintain and guard our health. He is our ever-available Physician, administering the medicine of divine Mind and the potent remedies of Truth, which cure sickness and disease of every name and nature. He operates effectively through His healing Christ, the perfect manifestation of divine Principle.
In the fifth commandment the Bible gives us a pure touchstone for true security and well-being (Ex. 20:12), "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." The parent Mind must be acknowledged as the source and the Giver of ever-continuing good.
The individual who falsely believes he is being separated from something good will gain balance and stability of mind and demonstrate true security as he turns wholeheartedly to the infinite resources of Soul and gives God the reverence and the honor due His holy name. Mrs. Eddy discovered the infinite resources of Soul after material means of support had been taken away from her, and she revealed them to others.
As was proved in our Leader's own experience, the greatest blessings that come to an individual come oftentimes when material props have been taken from under him, provided he gains through this seeming loss the understanding of the great affluence and abundance of Spirit, God, supporting and maintaining his true selfhood. Through this proof of God's care he is better equipped to impart these spiritual facts to others with divine authority.
Each individual, sooner or later, not only must contend with mortal mind's belief that supply or support is something apart from God, but must overcome this belief. Each one will have to see at some time that it is not public provision for man but divine provision that gives one true security. Then why not claim that security now?
No one need mourn or regret the lack of security from humanly provided ways and means if he will but accept his security under God's government and trust His omnipotent care. We read in Isaiah (64: 4), "Since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him."
The divine Science of God, Christian Science, will teach one how to cope fearlessly with the mortal belief in supply, health, and well-being apart from God and overcome it. With absolute confidence he can trust God's omnipotent provision because he knows that God has infinite ways and means to care for those who put their trust in Him. He will gain the conviction which Paul had, and he will be able to declare with perfect assurance to others as this apostle did to the Philippians (4:19), "My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."
So each one must answer for himself this challenging question of our beloved Leader (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 333): "Where art thou, O mortal! who turnest away from the divine source of being,—calling on matter to work out the problem of Mind, to aid in understanding and securing the sweet harmonies of Spirit that relate to the universe, including man?"
