"When the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem." Luke 9:51. Knowing that he was acting in God's time, doing the work God had given him to do moment by moment, maintained in Jesus a resoluteness of endeavor that marked each step of his mission. This firm resolve to take care of his Father's business was unaffected by the demands on him or the dangers that threatened him. The impetus given to his teachings and practice by his knowing at the outset that "the kingdom of heaven is at hand" Matt. 4:17. is matched by the assurance of their perpetuity through his resolve to make the ultimate sacrifice when he knew that "the hour is come." John 17:1.
Following in the Master's footsteps, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, pressed on with unceasing and purposeful resolve in her mission of establishing the Cause of Christian Science and her Church, despite what were clearly almost insurmountable obstacles and powerful opposition. Was it her spiritual intuition, bred of her consecrated communion with God and deep desire to be obedient to His purpose, that led her to forge ahead? Certainly she perceived the need for mankind to advance their faith in God into a practical understanding of Him. She wrote: "The time for thinkers has come" Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. vii. and "God is the fountain of light, and He illumines one's way when one is obedient. The disobedient make their moves before God makes His, or make them too late to follow Him. Be sure that God directs your way; then, hasten to follow under every circumstance." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 117.
What is God's time? In the affairs of mankind it's measured by the evolving receptivity to divine Truth in what can be termed world thought. For each individual and for each human problem, there is a point in one's spiritual progress when individual consciousness is prepared with an adequate understanding of the Truth to meet the challenge. At this time the divine precepts and the human footsteps coincide with an ensuing sense of unequivocal capacity and power. God's time is manifested in human times and seasons in direct accordance with the spiritual preparation that cognizes the Holy Ghost and Christ. Such assurance that one is working in coordination with divine wisdom engenders a resoluteness to act with confident, steady control, neither too fast nor too slow.
