PERHAPS the human race needs nothing so much as intelligent direction: how to think, what to do, where to go, when to act, which course to pursue. But men need a true sense of direction in more than minute by minute personal decisions; they need it in the full course of their lives. They need to understand the source of their real being and the divine law which is the guiding and governing power of man's actions.
Christ Jesus had this priceless knowledge, and so he was never lured by the carnal mind to drift away from strict adherence to what is lawful, right, and intelligent. He said to the spiritually insensitive Pharisees (John 8:14), "I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go." On another occasion he said (John 6:38), "I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me."
The Master's demonstration of his real selfhood, the Christ, coexistent with the Father and fully governed by Him, guided his human actions through every circumstance. The understanding that man is God's likeness, as the Scriptures reveal, makes it possible for one to bring the control of divine wisdom to each thought and act of his life. This control appears as direct guidance in one's human affairs, but actually, it is proof that one has come into harmony with the law of God, the force of good, which acts ceaselessly and universally to manifest the purposes of divine intelligence.
