Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to header Skip to footer

Articles

MAN'S TRUE ESTATE

From the September 1961 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The real man has his being in Spirit, and hence his state of being is spiritual. His welfare depends upon spiritual ideas alone, and his true substance is included in infinite Mind.

Spiritual man does not have and cannot have a material estate. Humanly, we often think of an estate as an accumulation of materially valuable things, such as money, stocks and bonds, jewels, real estate, and other assets. But are these material possessions lasting, eternal, real in the absolute sense? Do they constitute man's true estate?

Christ Jesus taught that material possessions are not true riches and have no real substance. In the Sermon on the Mount, the sublime summary of his teaching, so important not only for those who listened then, but also for all his followers for all time, the Master said (Matt. 6:19), "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth," and then a little later on he added this positive command, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness."

Sign up for unlimited access

You've accessed 1 piece of free Journal content

Subscribe

Subscription aid available

 Try free

No card required

More In This Issue / September 1961

concord-web-promo-graphic

Explore Concord—see where it takes you.

Search the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures