The life-giving words of Jesus still ring down the centuries, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live" (John 11:25). Jesus went through the experience of crucifixion to prove to all the world and for all time that death and evil are not real. Because of this supreme trial, he rose higher spiritually, and his resurrection and ascension proved this to be true.
Christ Jesus is our Way-shower. When, on account of our trials and afflictions, we may feel that we are going through something of a crucifixion, we can draw so close to God by study and prayer that we finally experience a resurrection of thought and life. As we understand that our real selfhood cannot be crucified and as we crucify instead the carnal affections and desires, we come to see that we are ready for resurrection to a more spiritual sense of existence. We read in the Bible, "They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts" (Gal. 5:24). As we destroy the love of materiality, we gain a love of spirituality and good.
Our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says much about resurrection. In "Miscellaneous Writings" she asks this pertinent question (p. 179): "What is it that seems a stone between us and the resurrection morning?" Then she answers it thus: "It is the belief of mind in matter. We can only come into the spiritual resurrection by quitting the old consciousness of Soul in sense."
