Our motives and the execution of them have a far-reaching effect on everything pertaining to our human experience. Therefore it is our privilege and duty to search out true, correct motives or incentives, and we must follow through by using them in our daily activities.
Even a casual perusal of the New Testament reveals the importance that our great Way-shower, Christ Jesus, placed on the motives and acts of his human experience from boyhood to his ascension. At the age of twelve, when questioned by Joseph and Mary about his absence from their company, he replied, "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?"Luke 2:49; And just before his crucifixion, when questioned by Pilate, Jesus said, "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth."John 18:37; Proof positive that, irrespective of our human endeavors and occupations, there is only one reason for our existence—to "bear witness unto the truth." This is the true basis for all successful human activities.
Jesus' motives and acts were undeviatingly in accord with and in obedience to his Father's plan and purpose for making His kingdom manifest on earth. Our Way-shower's devoted follower, Mrs. Eddy, counsels the students of Christian Science so to think and live, in all ways and at all times, that they too may progressively follow more closely in the path their Way-shower trod.
