Global positioning systems (GPS) are getting more and more sophisticated. Once they offered only a route to a destination. Then they added the ability to store and play music and to display photographs. But now they're moving into information-overload territory, with some devices providing traffic updates as well as fuel prices and advertisements relevant to the area being traversed. Information about speed limits and road surfaces can be available too, and some units will even allow you to track someone else's whereabouts.
That can all be useful information (just don't lose the signal from the satellite), and few will argue against using it. Still, it's worth pointing out that we all have a direct connection to an information source that can provide all the guidance we need: God, the divine Mind. We can always turn to God to get whatever information we need—although the information we get may sometimes not be what we expected.
The Bible is full of accounts of people getting reliable information from God. Moses was on the road with the children of Israel when he came to the Red Sea. What would a GPS have provided? The phone number of the nearest bridge-building company? But Moses turned to God and discovered that he and his people could go right through the water—and they did, following a route no mapmaker could have provided. Later, still traveling, he turned to God to find water and food for the Hebrews where there appeared to be none.
Before all this Moses had discovered that God was the very source of his being—the I AM, as God put it (Ex. 3:14). He was inseparable from God as the expression of God. As an idea of God, the divine Mind, he had full access to that Mind and could never be cut off from it. Sure, a worldly view of things presented a much different picture, but Moses learned that he didn't have to be limited by worldly views. He could stick with one God, and he encouraged his whole nation to do this. And sticking with God, Mind, he had all the information he needed when he needed it. Would he have expected to walk through the Red Sea? Probably not. But once he got that directive from God, he knew it was reliable; he knew it was the way to go. And by following that route, the children of Israel escaped slavery in Egypt—escaped the mental slavery to material ways of doing things.
It might sound farfetched, but we can rely on God for all our information just as Moses did. God is the source of our being, the source of our identity and life, just as He was for Moses. Like Moses, each one of us is actually God's spiritual idea, fully expressing His intelligence. As we do our best to steadfastly understand our identity as God's expression, we'll find, as Moses and others have, that we have the information we need when we need it to do what has to be done. This requires great humility, of course; a material view of things screams that we're separate entities from God, that we have minds of our own and have to figure things out for ourselves, generally without much or even any help. But we can reject this material sense of things and instead see ourselves not as mortals fending for ourselves and just maybe getting things right but as immortals, expressing all of God's intelligence here and now. And this will have effects, just as it did for Moses.
In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy defines I AM as "God; incorporeal and eternal Mind; divine Principle; the only Ego" (p. 588), and she defines Mind as "The only I, or Us; . . . the one God . . . of whom man is the full and perfect expression; Deity, which outlines but is not outlined" (p. 591). Like Moses, other prophets, and most notably Christ Jesus, we can prove that this is the case—that our identity and life are at one with God, the supreme intelligence. Proceeding from this basis, we'll progressively understand that we always have all the information we need right at our fingertips because it's the substance we're made of. And we'll see this expressed humanly in ways that benefit all mankind.
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The Wall Street Journal — "Who Keeps Digital Maps Going in Right Direction?" (subscription required)
