"Can Love be less than boundless?" Pulpit and Press, p. 3. Mary Baker Eddy poses this thought-provoking question in her dedicatory sermon for the Original Edifice of The First Church of Christ, Scientist. What a wonderful way to indicate the fullness, completeness, supremacy, and ever-presence of God, good!
In Christian Science we learn that because divine Love is infinite and the only power, sin, limitation, sickness—all forms of evil—are suppositions to be seen through, not realities to be changed or undone. In cases of apparent lack, we need to reject the temptation to try merely to adjust the human situation, to try to find ways to rearrange things to provide more so-called substance. Instead, we need to understand the facts of the situation. One is that man, as God's loved child, is supplied by his Father-Mother with boundless good at this very moment. We can glimpse this fact, rejoice in it, and refuse to let the lies of mortal sense fool us into believing suggestions of limitation in any form.
Limitation is a fundamental characteristic of mortal, material sense, which constantly attempts to measure and apportion what it terms substance —matter. Material sense would have us believe that our needed supply is outside of thought and comes in one of only a few designated ways, such as through inheritances, salaries, and chance. It also claims that substance can be diminished or cut off. This false sense may even subtly suggest that when we attain a certain level of spiritual understanding, God will supply us with what we need! The truth is that all good is present, real, and knowable right now. Understanding this fact brings the clarity of thought to detect and cast out the arguments that we are dependent upon persons or circumstances for good, as well as the belief that reading the right citation in the Bible or Mrs. Eddy's writings, or reaching some point of spiritual understanding, will cause God to see our goodness and then to reward us with what we think we need. The calm, persistent recognition of glorious, boundless good as present reality quiets such mental clamor and shows us Love's tangible, indestructible nature.
