Referring to the experience of the children of Israel who were delivered from bondage in Egypt and led through the wilderness, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 566), "So shall the spiritual idea guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul, from a material sense of existence to the spiritual, up to the glory prepared for them who love God."
The same intelligence which directed Samuel to select David, the youngest son of Jesse, to be king of Israel; which directed Elijah to the widow of Zarephath when the brook Cherith dried up; which enabled Elisha to warn the king of Israel as to the location of the Syrian host lying in ambush for him; which directed Joseph to take the child Jesus and his mother into Egypt till the death of Herod—that same intelligence is guiding each one today who trusts in God; and each one has the God-given ability to recognize spiritual direction. All that is necessary is that we utilize and develop that capacity through scientific application of the truth, through acknowledgment of and gratitude for each directing thought that comes to us from God.
When a young student of Christian Science began to realize how men had been guided spiritually, as recorded in the Bible, he asked why he had never been guided that way. He was told that he had always received from God directing thoughts, or angels, as he needed them, but that he had not recognized them as coming from Mind. He had considered them as original with himself. He was then reminded that when he was a freshman in college he had undertaken to sell a line of goods to the students but was stopped because of certain licensing regulations, so that it seemed as if he could go no farther. Then a right plan dawned in his consciousness. He acted on this guidance at once. The plan was accepted by a local merchant and continued in force for four years, enabling the young man to earn his way through college. Other instances were recalled, and he was able to see how many good things, which he had taken for granted, had come to him through spiritual guidance based upon the eternal fact that God is All, and that man is His reflection.
