Article June 25, 1984 Issue

Good is forever

MARJORIE B. McKIBBIN

Whatever good is expressed in our human experience is eternal. We can't lose it or be separated from it. Why is this true? Because goodness finds its source in God and is continuously flowing to us from this inexhaustible source.

The reason we seem to lose good is that we tend to identify it as exclusive rather than as divine, all-inclusive. We are apt to feel that good is coming to us through some person or perhaps some fortuitous chain of events. But Christ Jesus said, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." Matt. 19:17. This highest human representative of true manhood refused to see good as a merely personal possession. Actually, good belongs only to God and is reflected by His idea, man.

As we understand that God is good, the only good, we will see that any joy, wisdom, justice, supply, integrity, love, support, stability, or companionship that has in the past blessed our lives is evidence of the presence of God in our human experience. We will see the permanence of this goodness. And then we can't lose it!

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