Article August 19, 1972 Issue

Knowing and Claiming Good

EDWIN ROBERT ALLEY

There is nothing that requires us to do without good. There is no real authority dictating that such good experiences as happy relationships, ample supply, enriching employment, and good health are not likely to come into our lives. On the contrary, the teachings of Christian Science enable us to prove that we can never be deprived of the good of God. He unfailingly provides unlimited good to each of His beloved children to meet their every need.

The desire for good is right and natural. Whoever yearns for good really longs for God, since God, divine Love, is good. Everywhere we look there is, in reality, only good to be seen, for only good exists. In truth, our only experience is good, because our only experience is in God. Mrs. Eddy writes, "The Scriptures declare all that He made to be good, like Himself,—good in Principle and in idea. Therefore the spiritual universe is good, and reflects God as He is."^{Science and Health, p. 286;}

God is omnipresent, and so good must be everywhere. Since He is all-knowing and we are His perfect creation, our only true consciousness consists of our knowledge of God's infinitely good nature and expression. He is omnipotent, and therefore there is not, and cannot be, any power unlike good.

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