What we know about ourselves is evident in our actions and in the interest or dullness, excellence or mediocrity, of our lives. As Christian Scientists, how well we know ourselves is made clear by how well we heal. Indeed, every action can be coordinate with healing, because action that springs consistently from reliance on divine Mind invariably has healing effect.
Living to glorify God, really loving our own and our brothers' incorporeal, spiritual identity, as revealed in Christian Science, leads to right and fearless action. We can discern the unity of real action, fearlessness, and healing.
Living is a continuous stream of acting, of doing. This is true even in spite of such apparently regressive conditions as self-pity, despair, or fear; for despite these retarding mental states, we are still mentally active. Our thought is moving from one stimulus to another. The stimuli may need changing from the material to the spiritual, but we are mentally active. The needed change begins when we understand that God, Spirit, is the source and cause of all real being and were it not for God's presence with us we couldn't act at all. God is infinite Life. The presence of harmonious action is proof of the presence of Life, God.
