While I was on a recent trip to Boulder, Colorado, the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains were in full view during my early morning walk. Mountains have a way of attracting our attention. They make us look up. And it is not unusual to find our vision drawn to the highest peak and our thoughts elevated to new heights of inspiration. We feel lifted up.
A life built on high moral and spiritual ground also has a way of attracting our attention and lifting us up. The life of Christ Jesus is the most outstanding example of this.
Before Jesus' birth, his mother, the Virgin Mary, was told by the angel Gabriel, "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest." Luke 1:32 Surely there is no higher basis upon which a life can be lived than the supremacy of God. Jesus never failed to think and act on the high ground of obedience to divine Truth, Life, and Love. And this spiritually constructive way of thought and action—always giving all power and glory to God, the Most High—never failed to lift up the lives of those he ministered to. That's how Jesus attracted followers. That's how he built his church. As Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health, "The supremacy of Spirit was the foundation on which Jesus built." Science and Health, p. 138
