God's law

The Christian Science Monitor

I Was only a little girl when I first heard the words "God's law halts injustice." It was over fifty years ago, but I have good reason to remember! Understanding those words—and seeing that sickness is unjust—healed me one Sunday afternoon.

I went to Sunday School every week, but this particular Sunday I had been ill and missed the class. This was so unusual for me that my Sunday School teacher came to my house that afternoon to visit me. When she found that I was ill she shared with me some of the thoughts and ideas she'd heard at a talk on Christian Science she had just attended. Among them was that phrase: "God's law halts injustice."

Often we think of the word injustice in connection with legal things when we pray to know God's law is justice. But as my Sunday School teacher and I talked I could see how illness, sadness, and diseases were forms of injustice that couldn't exist in God's creation—His law doesn't allow them. And God's law is the only governing power. God, divine Love, knows only what is good, and that leaves no place for evil. God didn't make evil, and it's not real. All that God made is good.

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