Sooner or later everyone must learn to stand up for his own true spiritual selfhood and for his ability to make this selfhood manifest in everyday living. He must learn not to be dismayed when adverse circumstances or unhappy situations present themselves but to declare and prove the power of spiritual law to turn aside whatever the thrusts of error may be.
Through Christian Science we learn that it is not what comes to us that determines our well-being or lack of it. The outcome of any erroneous situation arising in our experience depends upon our mental attitude: whether we accept error as real, present, personal, and powerful or whether we reject it for what it really is—an impersonal, powerless lie of the carnal, or mortal, mind—never real, never present.
It is of great comfort and inspiration to know that divine Mind gives us the spiritual stamina to refute every one of mortal mind's lies; gives us the strength to stand staunchly for the fact that true selfhood is intelligent, strong, perceptive, active, healthy and that this selfhood expresses always the Christ-love, the Christ-spirit, and the Christ-power.
