Human error and vulnerability often make a shipwreck, of faith in God. Stubborn bias, compulsive obsessions, selfish indulgences, errors in judgment and decision, along with unexpected dangers, can threaten to overwhelm a person's simple hope in something better and higher. Yet this is just the point where a strong, abiding desire to draw nearer to God often reasserts itself in human consciousness and experience.
This deep, spiritual reassertion is evidence of a Christly presence that transcends physical conditions. But to advance from the desire to draw nearer to God to actually drawing nearer requires our making spiritual progress.
The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Many are willing to open the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind, but they are not so willing to point out the evil in human thought, and expose evil's hidden mental ways of accomplishing iniquity.
