WHEN we understand that God is the source of infinite good, we break the sense of limitation in our lives. Christian Science teaches that real substance is divine Mind and that pure spiritual qualities which we reflect emanate from Mind.
In the degree that we turn understandingly and trustingly to God as the supplier of all good, we awaken to the infinite nature and presence of good in our experience. Our turning to God, as Christian Science teaches, does not cut us off from what is normal and good in human experience but fulfills the rightful needs of the human heart.
Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need." She discovered that we must appeal to God, divine Love, to avail ourselves of His law that operates to enrich our lives. She says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 37), "Immortal Mind is God; and this Mind is made manifest in all thoughts and desires that draw mankind toward purity, health, holiness, and the spiritual facts of being."
Christ Jesus taught that when one seeks the kingdom of God by expressing the righteousness of true consciousness—divine Mind's likeness—his human needs are met. He said (John 10:10), "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." Through the spiritual insight of Christliness, the Master understood that real selfhood reflects God's all-inclusive goodness eternally, and this enabled him to say of his real individuality (John 8:58), "Before Abraham was, I am."
The glories of being that belong to the idea of God are brought to light in Christian Science. When we awaken to them, we utilize the spiritual law of attraction, which brings into our experience that which is normal and good. Our experience is enriched, and limitations are destroyed in the proportion that we identify ourselves as the image and likeness of God and express our true individuality.
Accompanying the spiritual view of the security that is native to God's idea are the fruitful opportunities that improve human experience. Sensitivity to the harmony and order of God's creation not only enables one to conform his thinking and life to divine Love, but also gives him the wisdom and foresight to follow God's unerring direction and thus experience the joy of God's government.
Christian Science explains that wholesome companionship, adequate supply, harmonious surroundings bear witness to the completeness of one's individuality as God's reflection. Such human needs as finding a right partner in marriage, acquiring the right job, finding the right home, and having adequate supply are fulfilled in the degree that one awakens to the infinite good that his true selfhood embodies.
When his thinking and his life express Christliness, one finds that the errors of character that claim to exclude him from the sense of good are destroyed. The true identity of each individual is included in God, divine Mind, as Mind's idea, and expresses only His nature. To awake to this truth destroys the erroneous belief that anyone is incomplete, left out, unwanted, or unloved.
How important it is that each human being understand scientifically that he is loved and included in the affections of others! The Psalmist understood that the right desire to be loved and included is fulfilled through spiritual law. He said (Ps. 68:6): "God setteth the solitary in families," and also (verse 19), "Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits."
Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health(p. 264), "When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness."
The God likeness that we see in others should inspire us to search more deeply for the beauty of life that we too reflect from God. In the measure that the completeness that is native to each one of God's ideas is acknowledged, all sense of jealousy or envy is destroyed, and the seeming inability to recognize the existent good of true being is removed.
Real selfhood, Christian Science teaches, is the compound of all good. When we accept spiritual qualities, such as completeness, harmony, and goodness, as being native to our own identity, our sense of life is proportionately enriched, and we have what is right and best for us to have.
