Article October 1, 2013

Reconstruction

Warwick A. Tyler

Originally published in the March 3, 1919 issue of The Christian Science Monitor

When Paul wrote that the way to know and to prove the perfect will of God was to cease conforming thought to the ways of this world and to transform it by the "renewing" of the mind, he was calling attention to the necessity of reconstruction; for if there is one thing more than another which is in need of reformation, regeneration, and general reconstruction, it is the human mind. Now the difficult problem in dealing with the human mind and in attempting to improve it in any way is that it is lazy and disinclined to make any serious effort to improve itself. However, transformation and reformation never come until there has been a shaking-up process, as witness the world conflagration; and happy will that man or that nation be that shall grasp Truth sufficiently to escape the sword which Christ Jesus came to bring.

To break away from the age-long mesmerism of following after the habits and customs of the world, requires courage, energy, and initiative. Jesus, of course, had these qualities in greater measure than any other individual, and yet we must all express them if we desire to know and to prove the will of God. It is God's will that man, His child, be and express perfection as the image and likeness of infinite Principle. Mortal man is not that likeness. Mortal mind cannot express this perfection because mortal mind is the "carnal mind," which "is enmity against God" and which is not and cannot be "subject to the law of God." Man, however, is subject to the law of God for the reason that he was made by God in His likeness. God is Mind and man in the reality of his being is Mind's infinite idea. As such he possesses or reflects the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus."

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