Article April 7, 2014 Issue

Your present standpoint

Mark Swinney

Whenever you consistently make space in your life to allow spiritual perfection to be not a far-off goal, but your present standpoint, good things always happen. Lack, sickness, and sin can’t help but evaporate as spiritual reality comes gently and clearly into view.

What is spiritual perfection? And, in practical terms, what is a good basis for making spiritual perfection your present standpoint? This perfection actually is found in nothing less than the nature of God. The real essence of you and me originates in the nature of the all-encompassing reality that is divine Spirit, God. Jesus saw this clearly and experienced it, as Mary Baker Eddy explains: “In his resurrection and ascension, Jesus showed that a mortal man is not the real essence of manhood, and that this unreal material mortality disappears in presence of the reality” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 292–293).

As a creation of God, you’ll never take a journey into and out of materiality. To grasp this does much toward helping you make spiritual perfection your present standpoint. It’s the nature of God, not the nature of physicality, that determines your present status. God didn’t make you a small, separate, although perfect, creation. Separation plays no part in the relation of man to God. There is only one God; there is only one perfection—God’s perfection!

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