Mortal existence seems to be a complex mixture of good and evil, joy and sorrow, health and sickness, harmony and disturbance. And so we endeavor to enhance the good in our lives and to find ways to deal with the bad. But is it just possible that the real solution to our well-being is not in maximizing the one and minimizing the other—as though God's creation really were a mixture of both good and bad—but in recognizing the fraudulent nature of mortality itself?
The so-called carnal mind sells its view of life as in and of matter by holding forth with the promise of pleasure and comfort in matter. Then, after we've accepted the deal, we find we're saddled with the whole bill of goods, which includes the belief of pain in matter. The need is to discern the actual, spiritual nature of creation as the outcome of God, and therefore totally good.
For someone who has believed all along that a matter-based experience is all there is to life, it may come as a surprise to think that there really is something beyond matter, and that we can exchange the dead-end, fleshly concept of life for a spiritual view, for a practical understanding of what God has truly created. But is this not what Christ Jesus showed us every time he healed?
