God’s ever-present care for humanity is shown throughout the Bible. It is articulated this way in “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science: “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need” (p. 494).
Given all the suffering seen in the world, we could ask how this statement could be true. In answer, we might start by considering that divine Love, God, being infinite, is more than equal to any human circumstance, even ones we can’t see. This is because human circumstances are confined to what is perceived by the physical senses, which could never even begin to challenge the magnitude and omnipotent capacity of the limitless, eternal harmony, safety, and peace of divine Mind, God. It is God’s love that shows us, through Christ – the true, wholly spiritual idea of God – how to understand and demonstrate this.
When we call out to God and pray for help, God’s answer is essentially, “I have helped you. I have given you My laws. They will keep you safe in all situations. Trust them. Obey them.” The First Commandment is a perfect place to start. When we truly know and live by the fact that there is only one God, this knowledge opens our thought to the present possibilities implied by this truth. As we act on it and trust only in God’s goodness, we find that our needs are indeed already met by divine Love, and by the spiritual harmony of active faith, patience, and grace that we are freely given in any situation.
As we contemplate some of the world’s worst crises, we can remember that peacemaking, justice, and beneficence are attributes of God that are freely and fully available at any time and place to guide and govern our actions safely and humanely. We need only look in the right direction – to Spirit, God – to find all good. This is because God, our divine Father-Mother, Love, is ever present and blesses Her creation with truth and love perpetually and universally. Even when we can’t see it.
I saw this firsthand when, one morning, an Iraqi man came into our Christian Science Reading Room in Melbourne, Australia, where I was serving. He took my hands in both of his and kissed them, saying fervently, “Abigail, you changed my mind!” I had never met him before, but I found out that he had walked into our Sunday church service two days earlier, where I had been serving as Second Reader (reading aloud Bible passages from the Lesson-Sermon published in the Christian Science Quarterly).
This occurred when the Iraq war was raging, and like many others, I had been praying to see a path to peace. He told me that a relative of his had been taken hostage and that the hostage-takers’ demands had included ending the United States’ invasion. He indicated that he had been considering taking violent action to bring more attention to this emergency, but that the words he had heard from the Bible had made him rethink and not pursue this plan. It was a joy to find out that, although the war continued for a while longer, his relative was safely released at the end of that week without any ransom being paid.
Examples like this show how divine Love meets human needs through Christ’s influence. They point to our opportunity to listen in prayer and avail ourselves of this immediate source of good. Christ Jesus proved that Love is deeper, broader, higher, and mightier than any human contingency.
The Apostle Paul had a perception of this when he said, “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come … shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38, 39).
We, too, can utilize what Love has given us to meet each need always, all the way.
Adapted from an article published in the April 20, 2026, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
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