The question, "Where am I going?" confronts everyone. It is a basic one because it involves an understanding of God and of man's relationship to Him. Christ Jesus said (John 16:28), "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."
The answer to this question can never be answered by mortals, because the beliefs of a mortal man and a material universe have always been an enigma. In fact, as we gain an understanding of God's allness, we see that mortal, material beliefs do not actually exist. In the light of Christian Science there is only one answer to the question, "Where am I going?" and that is, "We are not actually going anywhere." Man always has been, always will be, and is now in God, expressing eternal Life, entirely apart from matter. "For in him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28). Man can no more change from one state or order of being to another than God Himself can change.
Since the Principle of being is unchangeable and perfect, man, its expression, is also unchangeable and perfect. In reality there is no mortal existence. There is no period from birth to death filled with sickness, failure, false pleasures, and misery—a period wrongly called life. God is Life, and the attributes of Life are health, harmony, energy, and continuity. Man's distinct and definite reason for existing is to express God, eternal Life, and he expresses the attributes of Life at all times. To believe otherwise is to believe that there is a time when man is separated from God.
