The correct flow, that is. According to the Bible, the Law is my schoolmaster or disciplinarian, leading me from Christlessness to Christliness (Gal. 3:24). This is the Law of sowing and reaping. Nowhere is the Law made more plain than in the book of Jonah: whether I am aware of it or not, the Law is absolute, unchanging, and, as demonstrated in Jonah’s story, unforgiving. He that knows his Lord’s will and does not do it “shall be beaten with many stripes” (Luke 12:47).
And yet this punishment is not everlasting. It lasts only as long as disobedience lasts, no more, no less, as it was with Jonah.
The powerful rapids of the river of Life flow forever unstoppable, and in one direction only, God’s. If I resist the flow of this river, try to swim against the current, the rapids will buffet me without mercy. Mercy comes only as I repent, turn in the direction opposite my resistance and flow with the current, not against, as did Jonah when he finally turned back to God.
“It is not through enjoyment, but suffering, we learn the error of Life in matter, and outside of suffering it can only be learned of science; which do you choose for a teacher?” (Science and Health, Mary Baker Glover, 1st edition, p. 210).
“The loving discipline our Father gives to teach us the science of being, in the nothingness of material things, is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ, Truth.” (Ibid. 219.)
“When the miser loses his gold he has little left, and when the sensualist loses his five personal senses, what he has left is Soul, not understood by him, and the body is mortal until Life is understood, therefore, be wise to-day; willful ignorance culminates in outer darkness, and the future will reveal the great error of leaving the work of time for eternity.” (Ibid. 220.)