Article March 8, 1975 Issue

The Adoption of Good and the New Birth

KATHERINE S. WHITNEY

Spiritualization of thought is a prerequisite for true progress, and it may be accomplished through the individual adoption of good in daily experience. Adopting spiritual truth, or good—or, as a dictionary explains the word "adopt," to take by free choice, employ, practice—means accepting the fact that man is God's expression and really reflects all good from his creator. It means that we prove this fact right now in our lives.

Christ Jesus, throughout his whole career, exemplified the adoption of good. As a young boy of twelve he reminded his mother that he must be about his Father's business. Jesus was completely dedicated to God and the divine law of good. Again and again, John's Gospel tells us, he declared his oneness, or unity, with the Father. He proved the power of God in healing the lame, the blind, and the deaf, redeeming many from disease, from sin and death.

To Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, Jesus said, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John 3:5; To be born again implies complete turning away from the belief of beginning in matter, and being born anew through the adoption of the Christly way of thinking and living. This spiritual rebirth redeems us from material sense and self with its illusive ways.

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