Editorial February 21, 1983 Issue

Doing what's right

NATHAN A. TALBOT

So many people in this world are good people. One thing that makes them good is their honest desire to do what's right. If one doesn't have a desire to act rightly, it's going to be a lot harder for him to do so. The right desire puts him on the proper road.

Yet there's a stumbling block good people sometimes come up against. Maybe they're faced with a career choice; or they may be confronting a major decision involving a human relationship difficulty. The feeling people often have is: "I would do the right thing if I only knew the right thing to do." They truly want to see fulfillment of God's promise in the Bible: "I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths."^{Prov. 4:11.}

But just which path is the right one? Christian Science offers a spiritually original solution to this sometimes troublesome question. Certainly some courses of action are clearly honorable while others are obviously wrong; some more useful and appropriate, others less so. But the person trying to make a decision often remains confused if he's waiting for God to tell him which human path to select.

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