How wonderfully did the Hebrew seers of old sense the goodness of God! The Psalmist says in the one hundred and nineteenth Psalm, "Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes;" and in the one hundred and forty-fifth are the words, "The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works." In testifying to the goodness of God how closely do their words correspond in meaning with the saying of Jesus, the great demonstrator of Truth and Love, when he sent out his twelve disciples on their mission of healing and said to them: "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father" (Matthew 10:29).
Every student of the New Testament is familiar with the parable of the prodigal son. What stands out as the central teaching of this story, one of the most perfectly expressed of its kind in existence? It is the unfathomable depth of the goodness and love of God, the Father. The wayward children of men may turn away from good and drink the cup of sensuous pleasure to its dregs, awakening later to find themselves in abject misery; but, as the parable brings out, the Father, ever the same perfect Love, awaits the return of the prodigal, to bless him out of His unlimited goodness and love.
God is good—infinite good. And because He is infinite good, He bestows good, and good alone, on His children continually. That is what Christ Jesus taught; and his teaching is the teaching of Christian Science. Not in any degree does this Science deviate from the fundamental truth of the absolute goodness of God. Men may realize this truth imperfectly, and demonstrate it imperfectly; they may even think it impossible of demonstration; but that does not in the slightest degree affect the eternal fact of God's infinite goodness and love.
