How often a Christian Science practitioner hears the words, "I just have to have this healing so my family will know that Christian Science is the truth!" The wise practitioner recognizes this as a suggestion of the one evil, mortal mind, and he rejects it.
Such a suggestion is not unlike the devil's taunting when Christ Jesus was looking out from a pinnacle of the temple. "If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." But Jesus replied, "It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." Matt. 4:6, 7;
Jesus had work to do, and so does anyone who desires to follow him. That work is to live the truth of man. Man is God's child. God is infinite Mind, and the children of Mind are Mind's ideas. To imperfect mortal view an idea may appear to be expressed in a material way, and so to include or develop errors, but the idea is never in matter; so the errors are never part of the idea, only part of our feeble concept of the idea, which we have as yet failed to see in its spiritual perfection and purity.
