There is more security in one Godlike motive and act than in all the matter in the world. Security cannot exist in materiality, a state of thinking in which men deny the integrity of God and His creation. But Christian Science shows that Christlike thinking and living, arising from an understanding of God's laws and obedience to His spiritual demands, make readily available the security of the power of omnipotent Truth and Love.
Responding to God's demand that one acknowledge no substance or life but that which is spiritual, Christ Jesus kept inviolate the security of his person and mission, even when mortals sought to kill him. The security he exemplified was the security of the individual demonstrating the power of Spirit over matter.
His life purpose was to show men how to avail themselves of this same spiritual power and protection. But his teachings are of benefit to mankind only as the individual adopts them, learning to know man as God's image and to live and work with new, Christlike motives. Jesus' example resolves mankind's quest for security into terms of the individual and his quest for understanding of real being—perfect God and His reflection, perfect man.
