Watching Point 458

458 — WATCH that you handle the belief of the past by making it a medium for blessing you. The past is only our present consciousness of it. If we correct that, by spiritualizing our thought in regard to it, it becomes a medium to bless us, in the sense that we realize that it all worked together to bring us a higher sense of good. Mrs. Eddy once said, “There is no discordant past, no clouded present, and no dreaded future.” Finally we must come to the realization that none of the experiences in our past were real except those that were good, in accordance with Mrs. Eddy’s own statement, “We understand as Christian Scientists that our varied experiences are things of the past; not so the marvelous sense of God’s presence resulting there from!”

The manifestation of demonstration means a change only to human sense, since spiritual sense knows no changes. When you look from the standpoint of spiritual sense, you do not see a man healed, but a man who has never been sick. This sense sees no past and no future. When we attain this sense, we see man perfect, one in whom nothing can change, one in whom nothing has ever changed.