In The Eyes of our Father-Mother God, we are more than important. We are indispensable—and cherished more tenderly than we realize. God provides all good for His children, all joy, satisfaction, and success. How much peace there is in understanding this! Yet how vigorously many of us strive for a selfish, self-defined sense of importance, thereby shutting our eyes to what God has already given us.
In our more honest moments, most of us would admit to the strain and fear that usually accompany an attitude of self-importance. A personal sense of our abilities, or a yearning for position or power, includes also the accompanying fear of failure or insignificance. This kind of self-centeredness is inherently fearful, because our thoughts are absorbed in an uncertain, material view of ourselves. We believe we're separate from God, that our existence is self-sustained, and that our success must be self-propelled. This mistaken view dissolves, however, as we humbly realize that we are utterly dependent on God. We can neither act nor exist apart from Him. Referring to God, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "He sustains my individuality. Nay, more— He is my individuality and my Life." Unity of Good, p. 48. Our true abilities are bestowed by God, and right activity and purpose unfold through God's ineffable love.
Our Father-Mother doesn't know us as mortals, who need to struggle and strain for achievement or position. Divine Love knows us as we eternally are—spiritual, lovely, complete, reflecting God's nature. All of divine Love's children, Love's spiritual ideas, are eternally needed. All are happy, fulfilled, and in their right niche. No idea is ever in competition with another. Nor could Love possibly cherish one of Her ideas more than another, or give more good to one than to another. God is infinite good, and we all reflect God's infinite goodness in unlimited variety and perfection.
