When we've been healed and had other benefits from Christian Science, it's natural for us to be deeply grateful for this wonderful gift. But even though our list of blessings is long, we may well ask: Do I really grasp the deeper dimensions and wider applications of the truth this Science reveals?
Paul observed, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."II Cor. 5:17. And so, as we grow in spiritual understanding we can expect to see things in a fresh new light, the light of divinity embracing all, infinite Truth sustaining all.
Because it reveals the nature of the infinite, Christian Science removes the mortal limits and finite horizons that restrict all human views. Not least in the revelations it brings is a radical new understanding of what life is and what man is. Through it we gain the perspective that since Life is Spirit, God, the bounds of a mortal life span do not define or limit man's life. We gain the perception that man himself is not defined by a material, mortal organism, but is Mind's spiritual idea, God's expression; and that his real identity, as Life's manifestation, has neither material birth nor death but is here and now immortal and indestructible.
