IN the ordinary experiences of life individuals are sometimes called upon to make quick and prompt decisions on important matters. The tendency oftentimes is to defer action or to waver between conflicting opinions. It is at such times that the value and utility of Christian Science is exemplified in its teaching that man "reflects spiritually all that belongs to his maker" (Science and Health, p. 475). This must include the further fact that man reflects intelligence, which our Leader defines on page 469 as "omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. It is the primal and eternal quality of infinite mind, of the triune Principle,—Life, Truth, and Love,— named God."
When the necessity for an important decision presents itself the Christian Scientist turns spontaneously to God, infinite Mind, and realizing that omnipresence is a quality of Mind and that it is expressed and reflected by Mind's idea, man, he can know what he needs to know in order to decide any and every question quickly, rightly, and in accord with right reasoning. The outcome of such a decision must necessarily be good, because the elements of the human will are eliminated and because man, reflecting intelligence, must necessarily reflect all that intelligence includes.
Omniscience knows all there is to know; omnipresence necessarily fills all space; omnipotence possesses all the power there is or can be. Then there is no time, place, or opportunity for the exercise of the belief of power in evil or error, for evil is ever non-intelligent, the opposite or absence of that which is the "primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind." There are many instances in Scripture which serve to illustrate the importance of intelligent decisions. In the eighteenth chapter of I Kings we read: "And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word." It was not until Elijah had proved the omnipresence and omnipotence of God that "they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God."
