Fads Come And Go—in styles of dress, home furnishings, television shows. Without our realizing it, popular thought may also influence how we think of God, or how we view certain moral or ethical questions.
It's easy to believe in the gods of the times, to get caught up in what society is glorifying at the moment. But this doesn't really help us. Through our inherent spiritual sense and cultivated spiritual understanding, however, we can begin to detect the unchanging facts of the one, good God, who gives only good. Christ Jesus and other Biblical figures saw beyond the false views of their times and thereby proved the supremacy of God.
To begin to do so ourselves requires a decision: are we going to follow the crowd and, without resisting, be engulfed in everyday, materialistic influences that would seep into our thought and life? Or are we going to think differently? To think differently in the highest sense includes thinking individually, thoughtfully, consciously, humbly yielding to the divine Mind to show us what's legitimate and what isn't. It is to be spiritually poised to reject all that would persuade us to bow down and worship something other than God.
