THE Psalmist says, "When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers." As one studies and analyzes this passage, it becomes evident that the word upon which the action hinges is the verb "sawest." The condition is that when we see error as real, there follows a resultant experience or state of thought which has a direct bearing upon or definite relationship to that which we see. It follows, then, that it is of vital importance to see rightly if we would live rightly. Rearranging this wording we learn that if we would live righteously we must see righteously.
There can be no doubt, however, that when the Psalmist used the verb "sawest," he did not mean merely seeing with what we term mortal, material eyes. What he meant was, surely, that if we mentally see sin, disease, envy, injustice, in ourselves or others, and let these conditions seem real to us, then we place ourselves under the belief in the reality of something that can never be real or true. We have consented to entertain concepts that God neither conceives nor creates, and as a consequence we have adulterated the truth in our thought. We have opened wide the mental door and granted admission to the belief either that God, infinite good, has sponsored evil, or that there is more than one God—an adulteration of thought in either case.
The Master, while among men, spent his entire time proving the unity of God and man. The Gospels are full of narratives which show plainly that Jesus differed from those about him in what he acknowledged as real. His Christly viewpoint never admitted sick, sinning, material concepts into his thought; and not once did he make a reality of anything unlike Spirit, God.
