What We Need

A human need signifies a need for spiritual growth. When we turn to God to meet the need, then God meets that need in the best way possible. The need is always for something within us — something we need spiritually.

As Mrs. Roberts described it in a recent Roundtable discussion, it could be like someone who feels they need a better job. He might feel resentment toward his present job because he feels he deserves a better one, and may even be resenting those around him and those in authority because they have not given him that better job. He may even feel that they are holding him back and blocking his advancement. That resentment is what needs to be healed; and when that is truly healed, and love and gratitude for his current job and his coworkers fill its place, then the human need is fulfilled and that job improves or a better job materializes.

Turning to some other person, government organization, or to something other than to God, holds back our own progress. But when we turn to God to meet our needs, the need is met in the best way possible, and it is clear to us that it is God who meets that need. If we are grateful to God and if we don’t get distracted by worshipping the thing instead of the source, God will bless it and it will prosper. If we continue to worship the Source, God, He will continue to give us what we need; and even more than what we need, because He will enable us to meet the needs of others. That is truly unceasing prayer.