To a great many people daily life is a rather drab, uninteresting round of tasks and duties. In other words they are living in a mental rut, expressive of a mistaken concept of life. Life is God and God is infinite, and infinitude would cease to be infinitude if it became limited and restrictive in its modes of expression. Life is infinitely active, infinitely individual, infinitely varied and productive.
Mortal mind, the carnal mind, as Paul calls it, will often put us in a rut and keep us there if we allow it to do so. Under the guise of peaceful habits of living, a quiet life, and so forth, it claims to assail us with the beliefs of stagnation, passiveness, inaction, idleness, lack of opportunity. Christian Science teaches and proves that infinite progression is inherent in divine reflection. It teaches that spiritual sense, the opposite of material sense, brings infinite inspiration, always revealing new and fresh views of God. Mary Baker Eddy says in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 66): "Spiritual development germinates not from seed sown in the soil of material hopes, but when these decay, Love propagates anew the higher joys of Spirit, which have no taint of earth. Each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love."
The genuine Christian Scientist is constantly on guard lest his thinking get into a rut and become stereotyped and flat. Mrs. Eddy tells us that the spiritual senses "move in God's grooves of Science" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 104). Of the physical senses and the spiritual senses, she writes in this passage, "The latter move in God's grooves of Science: the former revolve in their own orbits, and must stand the friction of false selfhood until self-destroyed." The student of Christian Science knows that he possesses God-given power to use spiritual sense. He knows, too, that spiritual sense cannot be obscured or hidden by materiality and personal sense, because spiritual sense is his rightful inheritance as a son of God. He is gratefully aware that every time he thinks good thoughts, does a kind, loving act, or mentally differentiates between good and evil, holding to the one, and casting out the other, he utilizes his God-given spiritual sense.
