Article November 6, 1971 Issue

Why Limit Good?

LUCIEN P. CAILLE

Are you experiencing limited good—few opportunities, inadequate income, poor health, little happiness? It need not be so. You can reverse this situation through a higher understanding of God.

In full agreement with the Scriptures, Christian Science teaches that God is good and that He is infinite. We read in Isaiah, "I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me."^{ Isa. 45:5;} Why think of good as limited, then? It is infinite, and nothing but good exists.

If good is limitless, why does one experience lack, discord, sickness? Because one entertains in thought a limited sense of good, which results from a false concept of God. One experiences what he thinks, Christian Science teaches. The beliefs, for instance, that God is a partial, distant, changing super being and that evil is as real as good cause a limited sense of good. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health: "Mortal man has made a covenant with his eyes to belittle Deity with human conceptions. In league with material sense, mortals take limited views of all things."^{ Science and Health, p. 255;}

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