It has been said that every problem is a vision problem. I am learning that the quality of one’s vision depends on how spiritual it is.
Left to its own devices, the human consciousness defaults to a false view of life as based in matter, with its illusory sins, pains, limitations, and woes. But infinite Mind, God, is constantly feeding us the inspiration that enables us to look beyond the veil of material thinking and see the perfection of God’s spiritual universe.
Every day, moment by moment, my highest priority is to rise above human consciousness and look out from the divine Mind—the only real Mind there is. Whenever I think about my health, family, church, or work, I try to challenge the perception that they are limited, material entities characterized by lack, inharmony, or imbalance.
As often as I can, I check my thinking to determine the extent to which I am choosing to rejoice in God’s ever-present goodness, rather than mindlessly accepting flawed information from the material senses—a source proven to be unreliable. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “The notion of any life or intelligence in matter is without foundation in fact, and you can have no faith in falsehood when you have learned falsehood’s true nature” (pp. 485–486).
In the Glossary of that book she defines prophet as “a spiritual seer; disappearance of material sense before the conscious facts of spiritual Truth” (p. 593).
We can all be prophets. By making spiritual vision our priority, we can live each day knowing fully that we are in God’s presence, and see everyone else there too.
Charles Lindahl
