Editorial October 24, 1964 Issue

Finding One's Life in Christ

Ralph E. Wagers

"He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it" (Matt. 10: 39). Here is a saying of Christ Jesus that requires some measure of spiritual discernment to understand.

The Master constantly appealed to his followers to devote themselves to establishing the reign of harmony and peace on earth. He considered this to be the cause to which all should eventually commit themselves. He urged his followers to surrender their lives to Christ, the spiritual idea of God, as he was doing, that their lives might be spiritually enriched as his was being enriched. He knew that as the yielding was motivated by selfless love, a totally new life would be brought forth. In this way the Christian would lose his false sense of life in matter and find the true sense of his life in Christ, Truth.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, points to the nature of this spiritual selfhood when she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 316), "Christ presents the indestructible man, whom Spirit creates, constitutes, and governs." The greatest achievement to which anyone can consecrate himself is to seek and to find his life in Christ.

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