If a problem seems unyielding despite persistent prayer, one might ask himself, "What is my motive for praying? To improve matter? Or to glorify God, good?"
A problem can seem mountainous, can seem to dominate our mental horizon and limit our view of infinite good. Result: we find ourselves accepting it as a reality, an obstacle to peace and progress. And our efforts to remove it on this basis merely serve to prolong its apparent existence.
A sincere and exclusive desire to glorify the ever-presence, the allness, of God, good, can help release us from the mesmeric illusion that existence is material and discordant, and demonstrate harmony. Christian Science teaches that the allness of good is provable because it is true. How important, then, to cherish an abiding certainty of the unlimited nature of good and to exalt good in our lives!
