Many people feel that their day-to-day lives are completely outside the range of God’s ability to care for them. The conventional view of life as material tends to reinforce this outlook and the fear it can engender. God can seem far off, and it may sometimes seem that we are cut off from His power by our very nature.
Materiality affords no indication of the presence, power, and love of God, who is infinite Spirit, or of our real nature as God’s children. But that doesn’t mean that human experience is cut off from God. The awareness that we are here and now inseparable from God and under His capable, loving government comes through spiritual sense, an inherent, God-given capacity to understand the realities of Spirit. As we pray to gain more of the spiritual sense of life, we find right here on earth increasing evidences of heaven—of the harmony and love of God, Spirit, governing us.
Assurances of God’s care, given to us by individuals with a deep understanding and love of God, appear throughout the Bible. One that is familiar to many is the twenty-third Psalm, which reads in part: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.… Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever” (verses 1, 2, 6).
