The one who has not yet recognized the value of total reliance on God to meet the human need will sometimes postpone challenging the fables of animal magnetism, or evil mind, until a more opportune time, which often never seems to arrive. To a suggested direct confrontation of error with the facts of spiritual being, he will, perhaps, be heard to reply, "Yes, but ...," and then make excuses for not recognizing the supremacy of God over the claims of carnality.
Had Christ Jesus accepted the validity of such excuses either for himself or for his disciples, Christianity would not be the star of salvation to a turbulent world. Feel the force of the Master's words to a hesitating neophyte disciple who wished to excuse himself: "Let the dead bury their dead" Matt. 8:22;
One of the most stubborn obstacles we face in our journey Spiritward is the suggestion that tomorrow is a better time to meet the problems of today. Human thought, because it is human, will find it natural to avoid that which will put an end to matter's claim that it can be something and do something. However, the demands of the Science of being cannot be denied, and through better identification with Spirit one will find his experience including that which will best promote his growth in terms of more dominion over the senses. Mrs. Eddy points out: "Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law demands of us only what we can certainly fulfil." Science and Health, p. 233;
