THE ever-presence of good is recognized through spiritual discernment—the intelligent realization of spiritual facts, or the understanding of being as spiritual. An appreciation of good received in the past often hastens or enhances one's enjoyment of good in the present.
Christian Science teaches, in accord with the Bible, that "God is no respecter of persons." All good is God-given and is present here and now for the recognition and utilization of all, and each individual brings good into his human experience in proportion to his acceptance of it in his thought. Good thoughts are inevitably manifested in daily affairs.
Christ Jesus understood the continuity of good. He did not think of good as accumulated things, but as spiritual riches, ever present and abounding in God's kingdom. This understanding, precluding the belief in evil, enabled him to bring well-being to those mesmerized with a belief in the presence of evil. He immediately brought health to those suffering from illness; supplies to those faced with hunger and lack; sight, hearing, speech, and mental ability to those whose faculties seemed lost or impaired; and activity to those mesmerized with a sense of lameness, paralysis, or death.
