Editorial May 24, 1993 Issue

God's law, unrestricted

Mark Swinney

Suppose you want to look at a star through a telescope. You learn that, as the earth spins, this particular celestial body appears over the horizon only for a short time. With the right background information, you could calculate the exact time and place in the sky where it will come into view. Knowing that data, you would then point your telescope to the correct spot and await your star.

There is a point in time when this star will arrive in the field of vision afforded by your telescope, and under no circumstances will it appear before or elsewhere. There is a timing to this event, and no amount of fretting will cause it to change.

The timing of other events in life, though, isn't so easy to calculate and, in fact, it is often difficult even to know how an event will turn out or exactly what course our lives will take. Yet there exists a singular power—the omnipotence of God, divine Mind—that can be seen to govern every aspect of man's being with precision and harmony. Through prayer and spiritual understanding, we can prove that this is what truly outlines everything good that we experience.

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