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Spiritual road rules—for any season
One of the popular insurance agencies that advertises frequently on TV uses the slogan “You’re in good hands” to testify to their reliability regarding their company’s service. Last winter when I was driving and hit an icy patch of road, my car began to slide from one side of the road to the other. Suddenly a different take on that slogan came to me: “You’re in good hands—you’re in God’s hands.”
Far more than insurance for calamities, being in God’s hands gives us assurance—the assurance of peace, protection, harmony, and boundless love. I realized there is nothing out of place in God’s loving hands, that my passengers and myself were held in His constant care. This promise—for all mankind—came in these words: “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” (John 10:28). In other words, not only do we live eternally, but we live eternally protected and nurtured by the same all-powerful divine Love that Jesus felt and acknowledged throughout his healing ministry.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, identified good as God—God being infinitely good and the ultimate of all good. To be in hands that are infinitely good, we must be in the hands of our Father-Mother. Mrs. Eddy writes, “What a glorious inheritance is given to us through the understanding of omnipresent Love!” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 307). Since God is All-in-all, He is ever with us and we are always with him. This promise Mrs. Eddy goes on to call the “sweet assurance … the ‘Peace, be still’ to all human fears, to suffering of every sort” (p. 307). When we know we are directed by God, we never need to fear that we can be plucked out of His hands.
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