Editorial March 15, 1975 Issue

The Terms of Our Objective

Carl J. Welz

"Agree with thine adversary quickly,"^{Matt. 5:25;} Christ Jesus said. If false charges are brought against you, make it clear immediately that you know what evidence is true and what is false and that you have the proof. If a disease threatens you, make it clear right now that the only evidence you will consider is the spiritual. Agree only on these terms. Material evidence is untrue.

As a human being seeking to identify yourself as God's child, maintained in perfect health by Him, your objective is spiritual identification. You seek all the spiritual evidence and deny the material. Disease is but some of the evidence you deny as false. But if your objective is something other than spiritual identification, you might find yourself agreeing with material evidence while hoping to change it. Affirming health and denying disease symptoms without a spiritual objective—seeking only to identify yourself as a healthy material person—would be arguing with matter on matter's own terms.

Your objective is of utmost importance because it determines not only where you are going but how you plan to get there. A spiritual objective says, in effect: "I recognize life in God, Spirit, as the only life there is to live. In fact, Spirit is Life itself. And this Life is Love. I aim only for the life that lives love and feels love coming from divine Love."

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