Christian Science enables its adherents to rise above mortal opinions and to be increasingly responsive to the facts of the divine Mind, God. In proportion as this is done, we are uniting with reality, and our experience will show it. Regardless of what problems we may be faced with or in what circumstances we may find ourselves, there is nothing in mortal opinions that can give us sure aid, although it is often to these that individuals are apt to turn until thought becomes acquainted with divine Love's availability.
Suppose an individual made a number of mistakes in his life and is in despair because of them. If he subscribes to mortal opinions about the situation, he may find it impossible to rise above the sense of futility. But if he will turn his thought to God, divine Principle, he can receive immediate encouragement from such sacred counsel as the following, recorded in Isaiah (45:11): "Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me." If one will look to God for His eternal views rather than seeking, accepting, or entertaining mortal opinions, he will find basic truths upon which to build his life even completely anew, if need be.
In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 399), "The one Mind, God, contains no mortal opinions." What a thoroughly comforting thought is this! Whatever mortal opinions we or anyone else may be holding about a situation, or about ourselves or others, none of them are being entertained by our Father-Mother God. "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isa. 55:8, 9).
