The oft-quoted statement of Mrs. Eddy's "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" Science and Health, p. 494; has undoubtedly blessed, healed, and comforted thousands of individuals. It conveys the benevolent nature of God and sets forth the function of the Christ as God's pure expression. It includes the universality of God's love, the intimacy of His care, and the steadfastness of His relationship to man. We learn in Christian Science that God is perfect Love, unlimited good, and that His creation must manifest the perfect nature of the creator.
But in considering the above quotation the human mind often poses some questions: How does God know what I need? How can I be sure He will answer my need along with all the multitude of other individuals' needs?
It's essential to understand the absolute goodness of God, His allness and perfection. It's essential to understand the perfection of man in God's likeness. These are foundation stones in the Science of being. Divine Love meets the human need not by recognizing the need but by manifesting Love's allness and completeness and man's perfection as God's likeness. God, who is infinite good, could never be conscious of evil in any form. Evil, lack, error, do not exist in the divine Mind. By learning how to obey the commandment to have one God, one Mind, we can utterly relinquish error and thus be healed of the ills of mortality. It's through realizing the allness of God, the perfection of the one Mind, and the unreality of any opposite belief that we can come to experience the goodness of God in the meeting of human needs.
