ALMOST everyone has ambitions, some of which may seem worthy or unworthy, when judged according to accepted standards of morals, ethics, culture. All right ambitions, however, are founded on unselfishness, and often much worldly pleasure is sacrificed by an individual in order that he may study, work, invent, and achieve, and give of the results of his efforts to benefit mankind.
Christ Jesus accomplished more than all others, and everything he did resulted from his understanding of man's oneness with God. He said, "My kingdom is not of this world," implying that real existence is spiritual, rather than material. Because of his awareness of his spiritual sonship with God, he was able to give to the world the great rule, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," and later the sure method of procedure, "Except ye ... become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
Christian Science has come to us with healing, giving us wise instruction with which to mold our lives. It awakens in us right motives, aims, desires, and aspirations. Each one builds on Truth for himself, and children early learn individual responsibility in serving God. Men and women who desire to reconstruct their lives according to God's law, learn to relinquish false theology and so-called health laws, and to choose the spiritual and real as distinct and separate from the material and unreal. This practical religion inspires the pure thinking which brings salvation from sin, disease, and lack.
