Driving home from church one Sunday, I turned on the car radio, and this is what I heard: "Is your one supreme desire to be like Jesus?"
It's a good question! Is our supreme desire to follow Jesus' example? If it is, and if we put this desire into action, we will be consecrated Christian Scientists. I had never thought of it quite that way before, but aren't the two really the same thing? If with all our heart we want to practice Christian Science, won't our supreme desire be to follow Jesus?
But we need to be constantly alert that we don't just use Christian Science to have a more comfortable mortal existence. It's easy to be swept downstream with the current of materialism. The world is constantly beckoning; and when we don't respond, often error redoubles its appeals. Christ Jesus said, "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."Matt. 10:16.And Mrs. Eddy explains: "Therefore be wise and harmless, for without the former the latter were impracticable. A lack of wisdom betrays Truth into the hands of evil as effectually as does a subtle conspirator; the motive is not as wicked, but the result is as injurious." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 128.We need to guard against belief in good materiality as well as evil materiality. Our goal is spirituality, not ease in matter.
