Article September 1, 2014 Issue

'I will place you'

Andrew Wilson

At a time when people everywhere seem to be trying to find their right place—in a job, a school, a sports team, a community—it’s reassuring to know that there’s a law of God, divine Mind, applicable to placement that leaves nothing to chance.

Christian Science explains that this law is rooted in spiritual reality, in the allness of Mind and its ideas. The ideas of God are forever in their right place, governed and directed by Mind. Through the understanding of this reality we are able to demonstrate it, and we find our lives being directed in the right way, at the right time.

This truth of our relationship to God as His ideas is demonstrated a number of times in the Bible, where people are directed to accomplish God-appointed tasks, although they might not at first realize it. But, for me, one simple pronouncement confirms that God places all of us where we can best fulfill His purpose for us. It’s in the book of the prophet Ezekiel, where we read among God’s promises to the Israelites: “I will place them” (37:26).