The Nowness of Good

"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." With these words Mary Baker Eddy opens the Preface to her textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." And throughout this book, and in all her other writings, she elaborates the theme that those who turn to God are blessed, and that the blessing is of today.

It is a common religious viewpoint, held throughout the history of Judaism and Christianity, that obedience to Deity brings blessings to mankind. But the honest faith of many has been built upon the assumption that to lean on God in this life will not result so much in blessings here and now but, rather, will bring rewards in a future life.

Jesus gave his disciples many a lesson in the newness of good. At one time the disciples went to the city to obtain some meat for the Master's noon meal and left him resting at Jacob's well. While they were gone, he had the opportunity to enlighten a Samaritan woman on the nature of true substance and worship; and when they returned and offered him something to eat, he said to them (John 4:32, 34, 35): "I have meat to eat that ye know not of.... My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."

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