Article January 7, 1991 Issue

God's free-flowing good

God's goodness is always flowing to us. But we need the Christly discipline that dissolves our own resistance.

Eleanor Y. Clapp

God's love and goodness are always flowing freely to each one of us. Christ Jesus told his disciples, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." All harmony, intelligence, accuracy, justice, tenderness, strength, come from the goodness of God, and these qualities are freely available to all of us to feel and express.

But what would appear to keep us from experiencing this God-bestowed harmony? Do we allow our personal agendas and desires to strew our pathway with stones and boulders? Are we throwing up dikes of resistance to this free-flowing good by fearing and obeying false gods, by allowing base motives and reactions to govern our thinking? Are we stumbling over stones of ignorance because we are too lazy to discipline our thought to bring it into line with Godlike qualities? Christly thinking dissolves the stones of resistance to good.

When you come to think of it, many of our problems seem to involve blockage of some sort. We may attribute lack of career progress to unfriendly bosses or thwarted education. Stubborn character flaws may stand in the way of happy personal relationships. Many of the problems of old age are supposed to stem from various kinds of bodily blockage. We may think that elements beyond our control, such as weather, governmental regulations, economic conditions, distance, and so on, stand in our way. Young people looking for advancement are threading their way through all sorts of barriers.

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