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God loves us “to a thousand generations”
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column July 30, 2025
It can feel as though headlines are escalating each day with increasingly frightening and hopeless news. We would not be alone in asking, “Will we be OK? Should we retreat? Wait it out?”
Viewed from the perspective of Christian Science, we note the biblical assurances that the peace and love of God are with us, and also that God is “the faithful God ... to a thousand generations” (Deuteronomy 7:9). “A thousand generations” indicates God’s permanent, not sometimes or occasional, faithfulness. And we can be awake to His promise to us—His beloved, spiritual creation—that His peace and love are with us always.
This faithfulness is a manifestation of the eternal unity of God with His beloved expression, man, including every individual. An exploration of this promise is an overarching theme that inspired me as I studied a Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson on the subject of “Love.”
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