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How detail-oriented is God?

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QUESTION:
Does God plan out our days like a chess game or script? How detail-oriented is God?

tony Annette Dutenhoffer says:  No doubt we’re following God’s plan! But the chessboard concept implies a separation between God and us—the Player and the pieces. It’s a common model: think up a strategy, put it into action. But the divine model is different. Think along the lines of the sun and its rays. We work together as one—God is and man shines. Mind (another name for God) knows and man is idea. The oneness of Mind means that there can only be one plan because it’s infinite.

Jesus said in the book of John, “I can of mine own self do nothing;” and “I and my Father are one”. 1 It follows that every grand plan and every minute detail is in the one infinite Life—yours and mine. We aren’t living out our own little lives, struggling alone to make decisions for ourselves. Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “The sun sends forth light, but not suns;…” (On page 56 of her spiritual autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection ) In the same way, God’s plan isn’t subdivided into lots of little plans. We’re living in the divine plan that He is forever unfolding.

Several summers ago I was invited to take a college course that involved giving 20-25 minute presentations in Spanish. Great opportunity, but right at the edge of my capabilities. With only a few days left to sign up, indecision set in. It became like a little god, consuming my extra moments. One night, unable to sleep, I mentally consented to God’s plan. I heard, “whether you take the class or not, whatever you do, do it for the glory of God.” What a relief! In that moment, my thought rose above the material plan with its back-and-forth rationality, and caught a glimpse of the infinite divine plan—to constantly express Him in all I do. (I ended up taking the class and loving it!)

We’re not responsible for the plan.  Our responsibility is to yield to the fact that we are active participants in the one and only infinite plan, and watch good become apparent in the details of our lives.

Annette is a Christian Science practitioner based in Longmont, Colorado.

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Notes:

  1. John 5:30, 10:30

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