Article February 11, 1939 Issue

God's Will Is Good

[Original article in German]

CLARE LOWE

Jesus likened those who heard his sayings, but did not obey them, to a foolish man who built his house upon sand, and pointed out that it therefore could not withstand the storms and floods which beat upon it.

On page 597 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines the false sense of "will," in part, as "the motive-power of error." We sometimes scarcely realize how much human will claims to occupy our thought. If we take the Concordances to the Bible and our Leader's writings and study all the passages we find there relating to this subject, we are helped to distinguish between human will and the divine will, the latter being defined (ibid., p. 597) as "the might and wisdom of God."

Our Leader also writes (ibid., p. 490): "Human will is an animal prospensity, not a faculty of Soul. Hence it cannot govern man aright." Human will blinds us to the way of solving human problems through knowing that in God's creation there is perfect harmony. Peace reigns in our consciousness when we let God's will be done, trust Him wholly, and believe in good alone. For "all things are possible to him that believeth," says our Exemplar, Christ Jesus.

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