FREQUENTLY in our human experience we are confronted with the necessity of choosing one of several courses of action. We hear those who make wise decisions regarding employment, financial arrangements, political issues, and social events spoken of as having good judgment, and those whose decisions are unwise as having bad judgment. However, we often find that even humanly good judgment does not always guarantee that the results of such decisions will be good.
The writer has often had occasion to observe the unpleasant results of the application of mere human reason and judgment both to her problems and to the problems of others. Through a succession of such experiences she has come to see the futility of reliance on a human sense of what is right or what is good, and has learned to turn more and more to the one Mind for guidance. At one time she was offered several opportunities for employment, each one having certain material advantages, financial gain, pleasanter environment, or professional advancement. Pondering various courses of action, she was led to consider how the prophets prayed when they needed guidance.
The great revelation of guidance in the Old Testament is the Ten Commandments. It is related in Exodus that the people came to Mount Sinai, and that when Moses went up to the mount these rules of conduct were given to him. The people, however, because of their lack of spiritual vision, were not prepared to ascend the mount of revelation. Moses' higher moral sense enabled him to disregard human reasoning and upon the mount of revelation to discern the guidance which was to advance his nation to the acceptance and practice of the moral law. This was wholly apart from a sense of human good or evil. It was a revelation from God.
