Who of us wouldn’t want a trustworthy, steady hand to rely on as we walk through the many events of life? Whether we’re considering a major step in our career or dealing with seemingly mundane, day-to-day decisions and activities—the wise, helping hand of God is available for each of us to lean on. And Christian Science shows that nothing is either too mundane or too important to be put in God’s care.
As we learn about our eternal relation to God as His children, it becomes increasingly clear that every aspect of our lives can be entrusted to God, whose support and guidance are supremely reliable. God is the divine Mind that directs all our ways. God is our Father-Mother Love, whose tender care ensures the unfoldment and development of all good for each of us. “O Lord,” says the Psalmist in the Bible, “thou hast searched me, and known me. ... Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways” (Psalm 139:1, 3).
Christian Science explains the nature of this all-loving Love and all-wise Mind as not a person but as the infinite divine Principle, which creates, encompasses, and governs all that really exists—its infinite spiritual ideas, comprising man and the universe. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes of God: “The divine Principle, or Spirit, comprehends and expresses all, and all must therefore be as perfect as the divine Principle is perfect. Nothing is new to Spirit. Nothing can be novel to eternal Mind, the author of all things, who from all eternity knoweth His own ideas. Deity was satisfied with His work. How could He be otherwise, since the spiritual creation was the outgrowth, the emanation, of His infinite self-containment and immortal wisdom?” (pp. 518–519).
