Every day one is confronted with the problem of making decisions. One frequently hears someone say, "I can't come to a decision concerning this problem," or, "I don't know which is the right step to take." As the prophet Joel said (3:14), "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision."
If one allows confusion, frustration, fear, irritability, or other erroneous suggestions of mortal mind to have a place in his thought, he can be sure that he is not in a position to make a correct decision. On page 392 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy reminds us that we shall be mastered by our decisions. How important it is, then, to give prayerful thought before making a final decision.
If the student of Christian Science should be tempted to remain for any length of time in the "valley of decision," he remembers to turn to the Bible and Science and Health for direction. Here he learns the truth of God and of man, which helps him in making decisions. Christian Science teaches that God is Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; that is, all-power, all-presence, and all-science or true knowledge. Science teaches that man is God's image and likeness, coexistent and coeternal with his Maker. When we understand that man is subject only to God, Spirit, and to nothing else, we can turn confidently to God for guidance, realizing that, as God's idea, man is governed, directed, and protected by God's unerring law.
