Everyone wants to feel secure. We want to know that our life has value. Yet perhaps it sometimes seems that good is rather tenuous, that our happiness could be snatched away by some unforeseen circumstance, or that who we are and what we're doing with our lives doesn't really amount to very much in the whole cosmic "scheme of things."
Christian Science offers a fresh spiritual perspective on reality that helps us to master the uncertainties of human existence. And it is through our spiritual understanding of reality that we can demonstrate more of the permanence of good in our experience and discover the lasting value of who we truly are.
Central to this scientific demonstration are two fundamental facts of being: man's undepleted substance; man's undiminished worth. In Christian Science, man is not material, a limited mortal with limited intelligence and finite resources. Man is wholly spiritual. His real substance is in God, the one divine Mind. As spiritual idea, man reflects, in unrestricted measure, this infinite Mind—the eternal, all-encompassing Spirit and creator of the universe. Therefore the substance of our true being, which expresses only Spirit, can never be used up, wasted, or lost. What constitutes our identity is as permanent as God. The good that is ours by reflection is inseparable from our very being, our spiritual individuality. It is the essence of who we actually are.
