Editorial October 20, 1956 Issue

MAKING IMPORTANT DECISIONS

Harold Molter

Christian Science teaches that God is the all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-acting Mind and that man, the idea of this Mind, reflects its perfect knowing, seeing, and acting. Therefore, God's man is not confronted with the necessity of making decisions. He knows what to do and does it through the ability and understanding bestowed on him by God.

In human experience, however, the individual is faced with the responsibility of making many decisions. His ability to decide and act rightly comes through his persistent acknowledgment of the spiritual realities of existence set forth in Christian Science. By insisting that one is actually the son of God, a spiritual idea and not a mortal, one yields to the activity of the Christ, realizes his true selfhood, and thus identifies himself with the all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-acting Mind.

Our means of yielding to the unerring direction of divine Mind is through the prayer of Christian Science. In such prayer one gains clearer views of God and His perfectly ordered creation. The individual comes directly under the influence of the Christ. He learns to be quiet and listen for God's voice. Such practice calls for the rejection from consciousness of the material picture of himself, of others, and of any problem or human condition. It requires him to fill his thought with the spiritual facts of being, of God's allness as Spirit, of His tender and ever-loving provision whereby He supplies all good to His children.

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