There’s something within human consciousness that causes people to feel entitled to all that is good—no strings attached. In the very small world of royalty, individuals born into wealth and position are simply legally entitled by birthright to receive, rather than to earn, their wealth and position. But for the larger part of humanity, the perception of what we are—and are not—entitled to, continues to cause great dissension in the world.
The fact is, the global conflict over legitimate entitlement won’t be permanently solved until true entitlement—the spiritual idea and higher law of entitlement—is understood and brought to bear on the human condition. That “something” within human consciousness that causes us to feel a natural entitlement to good is the Christ, speaking to us of our true status as the offspring, or reflection, of divine Love. And because our indestructible oneness with this Love—our coexistence with Love—is the changeless law of our real being, we are legitimately, everlastingly entitled to all genuine good.
The coexistence of God and man is an eternal and totally mutual dependency. In other words, neither God nor man exists, or can exist, without the other. Explaining this point, Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “Separated from man, who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity; man, divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity. But there is, there can be, no such division, for man is coexistent with God” (pp. 477–478).
