"Abandon intellectual wrestling and just pray to follow Christ." This was the loving counsel a teacher of Christian Science gave a student some years ago. The student had written her a long letter filled with attempts to understand better exactly what Christ is.
A lesson earnest students of Christian Science learn is that a strictly intellectual perception of Christ is never a substitute for the demonstration of a Christly way of living. In fact, it is feeling the Christ-spirit in our hearts that gives us a clear understanding of the Son of God and of how to demonstrate spiritual healing.
One way to have a conscious sense of Christ's companioning presence is to stop mere theorizing about the Saviour. Our aim is to be Christly! Mrs. Eddy's inspired metaphysical clarification of the term Christ in the Glossary of the textbook, Science and Health, indicates how the presence of Christ, actually demonstrated in our lives, can heal us. The Glossary states: "Christ. The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error."Science and Health, p. 583 .
