Do you sometimes find yourself working earnestly as a Christian Scientist to put something right that has gone wrong, or to make an ill person into a well person? I know I do. Then I'm brought up with a start and realize that I've been treating discord as if it were real and trying to change or heal it. This approach, of course, is totally contrary to the teachings of Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy makes the basis of healing quite clear when she writes, "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration."Science and Health, p. 259.
It cannot be kept too strongly in thought that good is constant, already here, never absent. Why? Because God is the source of all good, and He is ever present. Our task is to stop believing that God's opposite—evil, illness, lack, hatred, error of any kind—is or ever can be present. This may sound simplistic; even to begin to demonstrate the truth of constant good requires much honest, devoted thought. Nevertheless, the one spiritual fact is changeless: good is and evil is not.
During a time when I never seemed to have enough money, I kept expecting that more supply would come on the morrow. It never did. Then I saw that "tomorrow" is an insidious concept when tied to the thought that the passing of time will bring good that is not here today. This is clear in Genesis. We read that after creating man in His image and giving him dominion, God said to man, "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."Gen. 1:29. Not I'm going to give you, but I have given you.
