The Preacher wrote (Eccl. 7:15), "All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness." The baffling and contrary human experiences here described cause many to question the existence of a just God. In some, they engender a rankling sense of injustice and rebellion amounting almost to atheism. In others, who are more passively disposed, they induce resignation to what is mistakenly believed to be God's will.
Such situations and reactions can be remedied only through the understanding of God, divine Principle, which Christian Science presents. By means of spiritual understanding the errors of injustice, unequal rights and opportunities, also sin and disease, may be wiped from the slate of human experience. Divine justice represents the omnipotence of divine Love. Its influence is illuminating, regenerative, comforting. Humanly applied, the perfect, infallible judgment of God, good, dissolves the fetters of sin and liberates those who have drifted into evil ways through self-deception.
God's will is spiritual perfection and harmony for one and all. The true sense of judgment heals disease, and banishes the ghost of poverty. This judgment of God, good, when understood and obeyed, reforms lawbreakers, releases sufferers, breaks bad habits, and in every way raises the human standard of thought and behavior. Therefore, humanity's great need is for the spiritual understanding of unerring divine justice and redemptive Love.
