Today opportunities for practical prayer are encountered in every walk of life. God's opportunities come to consciousness as the challenge to think and act rightly. Opportunity is knowing the right thing to do, and doing it.
Hour by hour, the alert Christian Scientist has occasion for correct spiritual knowing, for reversing the fallacies of a material sense of existence and for steadfast witnessing to Truth and harmony. The earnest student of Christian Science refuses to accept as real the suggestions of a world in the throes of chaotic upheaval and self-destruction. Recognizing the opportunity for Christlike thought and action, he reverses erroneous mortal concepts, knowing that in God's kingdom there is no element of error, that nothing can enter therein "that defileth. . . or maketh a lie."Rev. 21:27;
Opportunity is often a matter of individual preparedness rather than of external circumstances. True opportunity includes some unfolding understanding of the demonstrable perfection of the spiritual universe already at hand. The Bible is filled with loving assurances of God's care and protection in every emergency, the willing ability of divine Love to meet every human need. The promise stands in Joel: "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten."Joel 2:25;
