TO awaken to the spiritual fact that man is God's image and likeness, and that the universe is created and controlled by God is the great need of today. Mortal mind claims to present a world of confusion, fear, and distress. But this material evidence is proved false as we understand and demonstrate the presence and power of God, divine Principle, the one infinitely good Mind.
Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, alludes to spiritual awakening when she states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 15): "The new birth is not the work of a moment. It begins with moments, and goes on with years; moments of surrender to God, of childlike trust and joyful adoption of good; moments of self-abnegation, self-consecration, heaven-born hope, and spiritual love." And she adds, "What a faith-lighted thought is this! that mortals can lay off the 'old man,' until man is found to be the image of the infinite good that we name God, and the fulness of the stature of man in Christ appears."
Job's awakening is deeply interesting, for it shows in a measure how this awakening solved problems similar to those confronting humanity today. Job was honest and sincere. Besides, he was a very pious man, devoted to the worship of God, who he felt had amply blessed him with family and great wealth. But because evil, typified to him as Satan, seemed as real to him as good, Job had a wrong sense of self and a material sense of substance.
