To Christ Jesus, Life was God—nothing else and nothing less. His consciousness of God was his life, and because this consciousness proceeded from God, it was complete. He said, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." John 17:3; The present consciousness of God and His idea is all the true life there is and the only valid concept of being. Indeed, to Jesus, the only valid concept of anything was God's concept. He knew Life as God with the outlook of the Mind that is God. From the standpoint of effortless reflection he demonstrated Life as God.
Because his consciousness of God was his life, Jesus knew that he did not have to look outside God to meet the apparent needs of any situation. Whether it was money to pay his taxes or an upper room to celebrate the Passover, whether it was the means to feed the multitude or the skills to restore the mutilated and dead, it did not occur to him that matter could be a partner or a contributor to the completeness of being as he knew it. To him what God knew, instead of what humans thought God ought to do, was all that was true in any situation. There could be no partner to that which was infinitely complete, no medium through which the already self-expressed had to be manifest.
The symbol, or illustration, of what he knew may have appeared to human sense as money in the fish's mouth, five loaves feeding five thousand, and the sick restored. These were the inevitable, even though incidental, result of the light of Truth's melting of the belief that substance, life, and intelligence were in matter to the point that normality and satisfaction became apparent. But his constant and prime concern had to be with maintaining the correct view of God's creation, rather than with what appeared in need of correction. "Jesus," writes Mrs. Eddy, "demonstrated Christ." Science and Health, p. 332; The works of Jesus were the illustration of that which, from the standpoint of the Christ, was already true.
