What goal, what line of progress is nearest our hearts today? And how are we preparing ourselves to achieve it?
As he presses toward some chosen destination every Christian Scientist needs to ask himself these questions. True progress, as revealed by Christian Science, is the yielding of the human to the divine. The extent of this yielding determines the degree of one's progress, and no one can do it for another. "Prepare ye the way of the Lord," said Isaiah, "make straight in the desert a highway for our God" (Isa. 40:3). "Prepare ye the way." Individually and alone with God, each one gains the spiritual understanding which propels him forward.
One point of Christian Science should be made clear, namely that the real man does not need to prepare for anything. As an idea of God, he already dwells forever in Spirit. He is cared for and loved. He possesses by reflection infinite good, understanding, and wisdom, a useful and needed place in the divine scheme of things, and happy association with all other ideas of God.
