Article November 28, 2016 Issue

Christ dissolves willfulness and shows new views

Susan Kerr

This is what has to happen! This is how a certain issue has to be addressed! We’ve probably all experienced or observed this type of intense thinking at one time or another—we or someone else has an idea that seems as if it’s the only idea that should move forward or the only way a process should take place.

But so often the impetus or enthusiasm accompanying this type of approach is what Mary Baker Eddy pinpointed in part of her metaphysical definition of zeal, when she characterized the material sense of it as: “Blind enthusiasm; mortal will” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 599).

The problem with human will is that it’s based on a belief that life is material, and mind is mortal and forceful, and that there are many mortal minds, separate from and by nature opposed to, the one wise, all-powerful God we read about in the Bible. This is the opposite of the reality that man is created spiritually and naturally expresses the one divine Mind that is God, which Christian Science reveals.

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