Today we hear much about making choices and having the freedom to choose. Some choices are trivial; others are more important for our spiritual growth, health, and progress. But when we need to make a decision, are we mentally just fence-sitters, perhaps fearful, doubtful, unable to decide? Even if we're progressing in our understanding of God, are there times when we can't decide whether to believe in evil or to accept the total supremacy of divine Truth, God?
Our moment-by-moment choices between Truth and error—between absolute reliance on God and submission to the false belief in a power, mind, and life separate from God, good—can make all the difference in our lives. These are the most important decisions confronting us today! They determine whether we live healthy, productive, progressive lives, or just mediocre ones. When faced with negative images from the five deceitful material senses—impressions of disease, pain, accident, or lack—we need to deny them and choose spiritual reality, perfect God and perfect man, as the actual fact. When we consistently choose the spiritual truth of being, healing is assured. We are then exercising our God-given freedom to choose the real, the only, the lasting. The consequence of not siding with eternal Truth is that we slide further into a godless, material sense of existence, with its endless round of false, enslaving beliefs and suffering.
Centuries ago on Mount Carmel, the prophet Elijah exhorted his contemporaries to choose God, Spirit, as All-in-all and, in essence, to relinquish their false beliefs in matter as cause, substance, reality Because of the people's idolatrous worship, Elijah put forth this question: "How long halt ye between two opinions?" And then he said, "If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him."I Kings 18:21 The New English Bible renders Elijah's question, "How long will you sit on the fence?" A test then ensued that proved the superiority of the one God, the one Mind, infinite Spirit.
