THE world as a whole has not yet learned that God's will is always good. A large percentage of those who call themselves Christian still believe that God permits evil, if He does not definitely cause it; they therefore hold Him at least indirectly responsible for all that is wrong, and they still imagine that His will is something to be feared quite as much as to be desired. Even though they may admit that God's will is ultimately good, they believe that the way to its fulfillment is generally one of disappointment, if not actual torment.
Not to understand the exact nature of the will of God is to be left in uncertainty as to what one's attitude towards Deity should be. It is therefore not strange that men have approached Him from many a mistaken standpoint. They have sought Him with the hope that they might change what to them appeared to be His evil will; they have fancied they might placate Him with promises of better deportment on their part; they have even attempted to advise Him and show Him how much wiser and more beneficent was their human will than His supposedly heavenly but changeable one. And all this in spite of the declaration made by Paul, nearly two thousand years ago, that the "will of God" is "good, and acceptable, and perfect."
When Christian Science came with its revelation of God as infinite good, it presented from this premise the inevitable conclusion that God's will must be always good without any opposite claim of evil. It immediately gave so correct an understanding of the divine nature that only ignorance or intentional sin could again attribute anything to God and His will but that which is perfect and holy, grand and glorious, loving and good.
