The feeling that one is caught in some situation or that he is a victim of circumstance is not uncommon. To one person, the situation may be a dull job; to another, a family situation, and to still another, a supposedly incurable disease. Such situations often give rise to the claim of frustration, defeat, self-pity, or else to willful rebellion and consequent wrongdoing. But there is a remedy for these errors through Christ, the message of Truth, which dispels the false beliefs about man and leads to the solution of the problem at hand.
The Christ, as revealed in Christian Science, shows that there is a way out of every difficulty. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 332): "Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. The Christ is incorporeal, spiritual,—yea, the divine image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death."
Jesus demonstrated the Christ; he proved under every type of circumstance or trial that there is a way out and that man, God's likeness, is never the victim of evil. Jesus so clearly proved this and identified the Christ as his divine nature that he could declare, "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6). He established the fact that the Christ is never limited to any time or place but that it is eternal, ever present, and therefore ever available to each one in his time of need. Hence the Christ, the Way, is here and now and is possible of demonstration in this present day.
