As we grow in our understanding of Christian Science, we increasingly learn how to discern between the God-bestowed, permanent qualities of Spirit and the transient claims of matter. This discernment separates the real from the unreal, the spiritual from the material, and proves the spiritual to be eternal. Thus we perceive our absolute unity with God, good. This understanding, together with the spiritual power it brings, is especially helpful in healing the recurring problems that many people face—a harmful hereditary trait, constant bad luck, a jinxed marriage, a cursed business, or the return of old symptoms that we thought had been healed.
Often the great binding fear is that a certain type of problem is somehow inherent within our being—a fear that the problem will never "really" yield. This fear is found baseless and causeless when we come to understand the permanence and presence of God and His kingdom.
In God's presence there is no other power, strength, or truth than the reality of God and His idea, man. In God's kingdom all is good, all is perfect. The more clearly we see these facts, the more readily will the fear that God created man with an inherent flaw dissolve into native nothingness. God, being good, does not even have the ability to create His idea, man, with faults, fears, and lacks. Man is spiritual and is subject only to the conditions of Spirit, God, good.
