“ ‘What went ye out for to see?’ A person, or a Principle?” (Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 117). These questions prompt the consideration—Are we fixated on mortals’ personalities and actions, or are we seeking to understand God, divine Principle, and God’s man?
“Give me a man, that we may fight together” (I Samuel 17:10). These words were spoken by Goliath, a “champion” from the armies of the Philistines, which were at war with the armies of Israel. Goliath approached David from a mortal perspective and voiced disdain toward him.
David, on the other hand, spoke from a divine standpoint. He acknowledged the one and only God. He came to Goliath “in the name of the Lord of hosts” (I Samuel 17:45). He was relying on God, divine Principle, and not perceiving himself as a hopeless mortal.
