A net in which many mortals become entangled is the belief that because they have made a serious mistake, they must suffer indefinitely a penalty. It may be a bad investment with years of resulting recrimination; a moral lapse that seems to have cast a darkening cloud on life's way; a domestic or business partnership unwisely entered into with consequent friction and thwarted hopes; an ill-chosen vocation, leading to disappointment and a feeling that one's life has been a failure; or a crime committed, followed by what seems an unerasable stigma.
Christian Science shows the way out of such enmeshments. It extricates and liberates the individual from the dungeons of hopelessness, and the prisons from which aggressive evil thoughts would say there is no way of escape. No mistake is so base as to put any individual beyond the power of God's changeless, saving love.
The verb "turn" has much meaning in the establishing of one's God-ordained superiority to this phase of evil's lie, called mistake and penalty. Says the Bible, "When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, ... if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice ... he will not forsake thee." Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 316), "The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship."
