Article May 10, 1975 Issue

Choosing a Better Self

MARY C. GEORGE

The urge to justify oneself is common to most people. This unpeaceful, unsatisfied state of mind prompts impulsive, sometimes unreasonable excuses, or perhaps studied face-saving. Self-justifying seems for the moment easier than overcoming one's failings and mistakes.

In reality each one has a perfect, spiritual selfhood, loved and maintained by God, the perfect creator, and forever "justified" by Him. We can love and esteem this selfhood, too, and humbly strive for more of its appearing. Christian Science distinguishes between this, our real identity, the perfect, spiritual man created by God, divine Mind, and the counterfeit, or false, material sense of self or man.

Paul the Apostle made the distinction when he wrote,"...that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."^{Eph. 4:22—24;}

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