Article March 29, 1941 Issue

God's Will Is Good

RUTH R. WESLER

It is in accordance with the will of God that men should be free, free from physical and moral bondage, free from fear, uncertainty, suffering, sorrow, accidents, disasters, free from belief in death, which is often erroneously thought of as inevitable and according to God's will. His will is always good. When we pray, "Not my will, but thine, be done," we mean, as we learn in Christian Science, not that a human, limited sense of good, but God's all-embracing good, is done.

It is the will of God, His inexorable law, that righteousness—right thinking and doing—brings its own reward of harmony and good. Disobedience to divine law brings its own penalties. In "Miscellaneous Writings," in an article called "Thy Will be Done," our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes (p. 208): "Mortals have only to submit to the law of God, come into sympathy with it, and to let His will be done. this unbroken motion of the law of divine Love gives, to the weary and heavy-laden, rest. But who is willing to do His will or to let it be done? Mortals obey their own wills, and so disobey the divine order." And on page 209 she says: "False pleasure will be, is, chastened; it has no right to be at peace. To suffer for having 'other gods before me,' is divinely wise." Suffering will cease as false beliefs are dropped, human will is abandoned, "other gods" are forsaken.

When, because of disease or any untoward circumstance, we turn to God, seeking to understand His will, healing results are obtained. This is truly seeking the kingdom of God, striving for the heavenly vision, lestening for the angels. This is the way Jesus pointed out, and it is the only way.

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