ONE day, when I was driving in a small town, I found that I needed to replenish the gasoline supply in my car. However, I made a call in the town, and my thought being concerned with the subject of the call, I forgot to stop at a gasoline station. As I drove along the country road on my return home, the car stopped. The fuel tank was empty.
Humanly speaking, this was a stupid, unnecessary thing to let occur. Yet, the understanding that God, divine Principle, is the source and substance of man's being made it spiritually correct and possible for me to declare with understanding and honesty that my true and only self, the reflection of ever-present, divine Principle, divine intelligence, had never made a mistake.
Self-condemnation was rejected immediately. Had it been accepted, it would have brought with it the accompanying belief of penalty. But neither condemnation nor penalty is known to God or His reflection, man, and neither one characterizes the consciousness in which Christian Science demonstration takes place. Jesus' rule for healing was (Matt. 5:48), "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
