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The continuity of God’s goodness
“When things are going so well, something bad is bound to happen.”
Have you heard—or even thought—something like this before? It suggests that there is some unwritten law that, when life is good, evil has to balance it out. It’s worth rethinking that perspective. Even better, it’s worth praying about it!
We can start by asking where God’s power would fit into that view of life. Does God share space with evil? A foundational concept in Christian Science is that God is spiritual good, and good alone. God has no opposite, so it follows that God’s goodness has no opposite. It’s comforting to glimpse in prayer how, in every corner of existence and in every corner of thought, God, including God’s pure goodness, is present—the only presence. In reality, there exists absolutely nothing to react negatively to God.
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