Article April 30, 1977 Issue

Spiritual sense reveals it

True Identity: We Can Find It

JENIFER CAROL WECHSLER

If we were to identify ourselves as characteristically mortal, having the birth-growth-decay-death cycle as our framework, then all of the things generally known as the problems of mankind would be inevitably and irrevocably true. We would be in danger of the loss of all good, including our very existence.

If, however, we choose to identify ourselves in the framework of Spirit, having only the characteristics of the one creator—God, Spirit—then the picture changes. We are seen to be what we truly are: upright, healthy, radiant with joy, and free from fear, sickness, and death.

Which would you choose? Because you can't have both! Christ Jesus told his disciples, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Matt. 6:24; The decision must be made by each of us as to just what his real identity is. Trying to combine the belief of mortal selfhood with the understanding of spiritual identity is impossible.

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