We all have choices to make every day, and one of those is how we’re going to think about the day. It’s easy to accept the general concept of day as one of a total of 365 periods of 24 hours that make up a year. But through my study of Christian Science, I’ve learned how important it is to ask ourselves, Do we accept the world’s view of things, or take a higher, spiritual perspective?
I’ve come to see that we can’t have it both ways, because then we are in effect saying that spiritual and material reality exist at the same time. Christian Science reveals that this is impossible, since God, infinite Spirit, creates all, and His creation is wholly spiritual. In the words of the Bible, “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh” (James 3:11, 12).
So, we need to choose whether we accept a material or spiritual view of what constitutes our day. Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy understood that because God is all-powerful and ever present, the spiritual sense of all things is the real sense. And, as our acceptance of this fact replaces a limited, material view of reality, we can find it very natural to experience the power of God in our day.
