God Provides

What a help it is to learn in Christian Science that we govern our own experience, and that with God all things are possible. We’ve also seen that without God, a lot of things can go wrong!

The world thought is that that there are a lot of things outside of our control, like the weather, government, the economy, etc. The tendency, when something seems to go wrong, would be to throw up our hands and say, “that’s just the way things are.”

But the truth is that there is nothing in our lives that is outside of God’s control! If we will faithfully listen to what God has for us to do, and do it, He will take care of us. He will take care of what we need — not necessarily what we want, but what we need.

A teacher in this church taught me the importance of listening and obeying, which was a novel thing for me at the time, but it is really a principle of the universe. Once this principle started to get ingrained in my thinking, I found that it was true. Not only for me, but I could see it working in the lives of other people in the church, and for the church itself.

Many times, for example, when the members of this church needed a day of rest, we would see rain turn to sunshine, so people could have a pleasant day at the beach or a picnic at somebody’s house. When this church needed a good lawyer to defend itself against the lawsuit brought against us by the Board of Directors in Boston, we found a really good lawyer right here in our own backyard, who saw the mission clearly and did a great job. When we needed a printer when we started publishing our magazines and Quarterlies, God brought us a professional printer from New York, who served faithfully for many years.

I have seen God take care of many other things for this church and for the members. When anything does go wrong, I realize that what I need to do is to get on my knees and do a better job of listening for God’s guidance and obeying Him. When I do, things turn around; and that is Principle operating. It has given me a peace of mind that I never had.