ACCORDING to human thought, one view of compensation is the substituting of something desirable for something that is undesirable or unattainable. Thus it is believed that a struggle with a sense of inferiority may, under certain circumstances, lead one to self-improvement.
There is a happy and successful way of seeking compensation for the human sense of inferiority. This is the way of the Christ, the understanding of man's real, spiritual selfhood, which Christian Science has revealed to the world. As individuals discern the present perfection of the universe and man, they find the compensating spiritual knowledge which replaces the false sense of a limited material ego and brings the operation of the divine law of good into human affairs.
Jesus lived in an era of unrest and oppression, and his life was spent in a limited area. And yet he understood man's divine origin and completeness, and this understanding met his everyday needs as well as important crises.
