We live in a world of material forces. At least, so it seems. Forces such as gravity and electricity, economic and social forces. We take them more or less for granted, exploiting or adapting to them as best we can.
All real forces belong to God, or Spirit, and not to matter—to divine Mind, not to mortal mind. The only true forces are benevolent and concordant. "Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things," Mary Baker Eddy, our Leader, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. "We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they belong wholly to divine Mind, are inherent in this Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and classification."Science and Health, p. 124;
Opposing forces of good and evil inhere in the human sense of existence. But how we think has everything to do with the way we cope with the conflict. We never have to surrender to any sense of being helplessly caught in a mental whirlpool. Through spiritual understanding, we can marshal the divine forces on our own behalf, and so do something toward marshaling them on behalf of humanity in general. We can put ourselves on the side of Science rather than on the side of material force.
