Physical and other outward conditions indicate inward mental convictions and decisions, because these decisions determine and precede outward manifestations. Mental convictions may master one, either for good or for evil. One is wise indeed, therefore, who mentally admits as real only that which he knows to be divinely true, spiritually correct. He is wise who never admits as true a handicap, deficiency, limitation, or failure, or permits anything untoward to assume reality in his consciousness.
Sometimes Christian Scientists are criticized because they do not admit what the so-called physical senses seem to affirm. Admitting only that which is divinely true does not mean that students of Christian Science ignore seeming difficulties. They recognize them, but only as temptations to believe in a presence and a power apart from God, good. In admitting only the true, the wise Scientist is empowered to meet and overcome the temptations of illness, accident, failure, even as he meets and masters the temptation to sin or to be dishonest or profane.
The Bible records proof of the efficacy of acknowledging only that which is divinely real. Moses proved this efficacy when he refused to believe that the children of Israel were helpless because they were confronted by the Red Sea and pursued with evil intentions by the armies of Pharaoh. God's presence and power, ever available, were seen when the waters parted for the Israelites to cross the Red Sea safely.
