Too often we believe all would be well, we would be truly happy, if something outside us would change. If a physical healing were evident or a relationship problem were resolved or our life style or financial condition could be changed—then we would be happy and grateful. But God is ever the same. He is now all He will ever be. It might be very worthwhile, in light of this absolute spiritual fact, to look first at our own nature and relationship to God—and look more deeply, spiritually—instead of focusing solely on what we think needs changing outside of us.
Christian Science affirms man's true spiritual nature as the reflection, or expression, of God. If that's true, then the identity of each of us is now the good He expresses, individualized. Our spiritual individuality does not need change nor undergo it, any more than God changes. That truth gives constancy, continuity, and eternality to our individuality. Waking to the perfection, the completeness, of our spiritual individuality gives us increasing dominion over limitations and impositions in human experience. Instead of pitifully yearning for change without, we can awake to an appreciation of the God-created and constant individuality within. What God creates as an expression of Himself is God-preserved.
Paul refers to a time—the time of his conversion—"when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen." Gal. 1:15, 16 Paul's spiritual awakening caused him to abandon identification with mortality as God's fathering and mothering revealed his spiritual sonship—revealed his individuality in Christ. He acknowledged it was God's grace that enabled him to preach Christ among the heathen—and through God's grace we have the needed spiritual qualities for every demand in our experience.
