Article November 11, 1950 Issue

WHAT IS YOUR POSITION?

FLORENCE I. EDWARDS

How often we ask or someone asks asks us, "What is your position?" The answer to this question seems to affect our lives, our happiness, our supply, our interest in many things. The answer to it may change our concept of a person, for certain positions seem to demand more respect than others. Some may symbolize ample supply; others, abundant supply; while still others, scant or no supply. A change in position may evidence change in supply, which proves how unreliable and unstable are positions when considered wholly from a material standpoint.

Christian Science has come to the world to show us what man's real position is, how to obtain an understanding of this position, and how to retain it. Man's position is to express God. Such a position does not depend upon place, time, or person. Just as the sun's rays have always reflected the sun, so man has always reflected God and will always do so. This reflection of God is not governed by economic cycles, business booms, or before or after election periods. No material law affects man's position, for he is subject only to the spiritual law of the continuous activity of Mind. Man's activity is in the reflection of this Mind; hence there is no cessation of right activity.

In the Bible we are told to "labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life" (John 6:27). Regardless of where we are placed at the moment, our real position is to heal every ungodlike thought that comes to us. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we find these words (p. 182): "The act of healing the sick through divine Mind alone, of casting out error with Truth, shows your position as a Christian Scientist." This was proved in the case of a young girl who had lost her position through no fault of her own. She went to a practitioner for help in Christian Science, and together they prayed to know what her real work was.

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