Article September 7, 1981 Issue

How high is your goal?

JULIUS EVANS

We can set a goal for ourselves—to really know God—and the results can be far-reaching. The more the understanding of divine metaphysics permeates our lives, the more others will be drawn to whatever Godlike qualities we manifest. Christ Jesus said, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."^{John 12:32.}

Could we not all aim for a sense of Truth like the Way-shower's and know that as we mentally soar above the gravitation of materiality we too will draw others to that rising thought? Even those who make a conscious effort to pull away from Truth cannot forever struggle against the basic, God-derived goodness in their nature.

Aiming to follow Christ Jesus in being "lifted up" means having a high goal indeed: to keep one's thought at a spiritual level, above the downward pull of mortality, worldliness, sensualism, and the idolatry of matter. This calls for alertly watching one's motives and environment; carefully analyzing one's thoughts and actions; and embodying a true sense of love and all that entails. What it demands, above all, is thinking, acting, and understanding from the basis of man's true, spiritual being. This lifts our thought above mere human comprehension into the realm of spiritual reality—and then we are ready to help others attain this goal.

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