Prestige in a business or professional situation is often sought. This is not unnatural. When underpinned by outstanding ability, that prestige may be thoroughly justified. But we might well be far more alert than we often are when it comes to giving prestige to evil.
We do this unconsciously when, for instance, we admit to ourselves that an illness may linger on for a few more days, or when we decide that some money problem is insoluble. In Christian Science all authority and glory belong to God. We shouldn't allocate them to anything else. God, or Mind, is the originator of all that is real. "Mind is the grand creator," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "and there can be no power except that which is derived from Mind. If Mind was first chronologically, is first potentially, and must be first eternally, then give to Mind the glory, honor, dominion, and power everlastingly due its holy name."Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 143; If there is a true sense of prestige, then this is surely it! Nothing but Mind and its innumerable spiritual ideas should be real to us. Nothing else is authentic or valid.
Disease, lack, anxiety—these have only the prestige and weight we attribute to them. Intrinsically they are weightless. But if we do give such negatives a reputation, we expose ourselves to being burdened by that mistake.
