As I look at the things I possess, there are some I consider valuable because of what I could get for them if I were to sell them. There are others I value because of what they mean to me. Some are priceless.
How do we value Christian Science? Do we think of it as the "pearl of great price"Matt. 13:46; Christ Jesus referred to? This pearl is not something we sell all for on the promise that possessing it will bring us a lot of other things. If we truly value Christian Science, we give for it all that we have to give, and as we gain it, we are satisfied with having it.
Did we come to Christian Science because of what it would give us? Many of us did. We sought relief from aches and sufferings of one kind or another, and we were not disappointed. But why were we not disappointed? Why did Christian Science heal us? Was it not because in seeking this Science, we were turning away from the satisfactions we thought we were having in a material sense of life? These satisfactions were proving themselves false. They had no substance, and Christian Science offered true substance—true health, true joy, true affection, true wealth—Spirit, not matter. We loved what we found, and what we found brought us freedom we had not known before.
