Sometimes when mulling over unsolved problems, this question comes, "Why doesn't God help me more?" We may wonder, when our prayers are sincere, why we don't see quicker and better results from them. Feeling apart from God's help and separated from Him is a mental hell. However, there is a release from this question and its subsequent suffering.
This kind of questioning may mean that, at least for the moment, we're thinking of God in anthropomorphic terms. Somewhere in our consciousness our view of God is not consistent with a spiritually enlightened understanding of Him, and therein lies the source of our suffering. God needs no changing, but our concept of Him often does.
Throughout all history mankind has been putting off a mortal, hazy view of God, bit by bit exchanging it for a more spiritually enlightened concept of Him. Abraham's acknowledgment of one God and Moses' inspiration in receiving the Ten Commandments are examples of important steps in this advancement. We can see how erroneous notions of God have been overcome through the centuries, and we can realize the challenge facing us to overcome our own false beliefs about Him. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Through many generations human beliefs will be attaining diviner conceptions, and the immortal and perfect model of God's creation will finally be seen as the only true conception of being."Science and Health, p.260; These "diviner conceptions" are our answer.
