When one brings his innermost thoughts and motives under the beneficent influence of the Christ, Truth, there is always hope for freedom from enslaving mortal beliefs that cause people to suffer. One can joyfully bring his thinking and living into accordance with higher ideals and more spiritual values. In doing so he asks, "What must I do to inherit the good that comes from adherence to these higher ideals and values?"
A certain ruler asked Christ Jesus, "Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"Luke 18:18 Jesus' reply illustrates the Master's constant effort to divert thought from a finite, personal value and turn it wholeheartedly to immortal Spirit as the inexhaustible source of all true righteousness: "And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God."
In the Master's statement is there really any justification of the view that God is indeed good but that man is unrighteous and evil? Not if one thoroughly examines the life experience of the Master and observes how practical in human affairs was his demonstration of God's goodness and how it coincided with his absolute view of man's eternal oneness with Spirit, God, the source of all perfection and harmony. The Master taught that there is universal need for the scientific view of perfect God and perfect man, when he declared, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."Matt. 5:48
