A common defeatist notion about modern life is that it is impossible to resolve complex conflicting interests. "Deadlock in the Middle East," "The World Bank opposes the Save Bombay Committee," "Race plan: a sinister ring"—the enormity of reported troubles such as these, with the attending doubts over their ultimate resolution, can put us fast asleep spiritually by making us feel helpless, instead of alerting us to our responsibility to pray daily, emphatically, and understandingly, "Thy kingdom come." Matt. 6:10; Mrs. Eddy spiritually interprets this line from the prayer Christ Jesus gave his disciples as, "Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present." Science and Health, p. 16;
Conflicting interests—even those of multinational or superpower dimensions concerning issues as gray as a dawn fog— you and I can help resolve by our total acceptance of the omnipotence and ever-presence of God. Once we begin regularly to acknowledge His omnipotence we are less likely to be duped into believing that what we are spiritually discerning doesn't count for very much against "big problems" or that the institutionalized greed of some powerful monopolies threatening human rights is too complicated for us to pray about effectively.
The Bible is an encyclopedia of spiritual facts, which when pondered dispel the notion that small- or large-scale conflicts are immovable blots on mankind's horizon. Jeremiah declared, "Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord." Jer. 23:24; David cried, "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine." I Chron. 29: 11; The recognition of God's omnipresence involves the acknowledgment of the presence everywhere of all His attributes. Where God is, there too are mercy, intelligence, goodness, justice.
