Seeing Jesus, we see a unique example of what Christ, Truth, does in a human life, in a human being. But if we expect to see some effect of Christ in our own lives, it takes a real willingness to leave our assumptions and opinions and go where Christ leads. Do we feel the urgency of the demand? Do we realize it is a thousand times more important to do this than following some "career track" or following out our own plans and inclinations?
We may be church members, may even be quite active, may have been class taught, may read the Bible Lesson, but all this may or may not signify that we are leaving all for Christ. And yet that point of crossing over where we leave a material sense of things for spiritual truth—that fundamental change of consciousness—is what Christian Science is all about.
We have to work at it. We have to practice it in living, in correcting and disciplining thought, as we go along each day. We learn not just by being inspired at 5:30 a.m. when the house is quiet but by holding on to the inspiration and sticking with it at 11:30 a.m. when the kids are fighting, or at 1:30 a.m. when we're alone and the house seems empty. We learn not just from the inspiration on a weekend but from holding to it on Wednesday morning at the office. At such times we often learn about the actual source of inspiration, feel it as a source that never runs out—and we also learn about the sacrifices of fear, of conventional belief, and of self-love that are demanded of us. We find that we can follow Christ, Truth, and so have the spiritual consciousness of a different world—God's world. This is the consciousness that heals.
