WHAT is the law of good? Does it operate continuously in our behalf? How may we learn to apply it more scientifically? How do God's angels uphold His law? These are important questions to all of us.
The law of good is the law or incontestable will of God. All true law stems from God, the one and only Mind. This law declares God's allness, the allness of good. Because God, Spirit, is All, the law of God proclaims and reveals that all is in reality spiritual. Thus divine law asserts that all good is truly spiritual, and only that which is basically spiritual is good. The Bible confirms this, for we read (Gen. 1:1,31): "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. . . . And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."
This healing truth is incontrovertible. Though error or mortal mind may argue to the contrary, God, all-space-filling Soul, reigns supreme. Though material sense may suggest disease, unhappiness, or some other discord, its testimony is false. The abundant law of good, Truth, uncovers and destroys such testimony as misconception —false belief entertained.
We can bring this marvelous law to bear upon our problems by gratefully acknowledging its omnipresent operation and by replacing the claims of animal magnetism, the belief of life in matter, with their spiritual counterfacts. By drinking deeply of God's goodness, as found in the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, and by happily affirming God's allness and sticking to it, even in the face of discordant sense testimony, we prove that, as Mrs. Eddy assures us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 473), "God is everywhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power."
Though we may feel we have not progressed very far in our study of Christian Science, still the all-powerful law of good is functioning to bless us. Regardless of the mortal mind picture confronting us, this law of God is silently working to save and heal us. Why? Because our ever-present God, Spirit, does not recognize a false mental state called matter or mortality. By being All, Spirit, Life, allows no room for matter or mortality. Spirit, being divine Love, infinite good, blesses. Our part is to claim this blessing.
Utilizing the law of impartial good is very much like using electricity. Electricity serves the child as well as the adult, irrespective of age, race, or background. All that is required is the right connection.
So with the law of good. All we need to do is to come into accord with divine Principle. This Principle, tender, divine Love, is continuously governing its universe perfectly. And the moment we humbly reach out to God by aligning our thinking with divine Love, healing or harmony results.
To illustrate: a man seeking employment requested help from a Christian Scientist. The Scientist recognized that the man, because of his age and because his line of work was overcrowded, felt limited in his choice of positions. Confidently the Christian Scientist assured the man of God's love for him and recommended his earnest study of Science and Health. With absolute conviction the practitioner looked to the infinitude of Love and its law to meet the need. He recognized that the allness of God left no room for mortality and its claims of lack and age. He saw clearly that in God's spiritual universe only eternal, abundant activity is going on uninterruptedly. He felt a deep sense of love for the patient and perceived that in his true being he was actually experiencing right activity, God's goodness, at that very time.
Within two weeks the man obtained a fine position, in which he did the same type of work that he had previously done. And it is enlightening to know that during the two-week period when this man was looking for employment, he expressed kindness, good cheer, and unselfish affection wherever he went.
We best harmonize our thinking with God, divine Mind, by relinquishing the false basis of mortality and by prayerfully acknowledging our at-one-ment with God as in truth His holy idea. Supporting our acknowledgment with the expression of Christlike qualities, we live the truth, and unfoldment of good naturally results. Christ Jesus declared (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
Perhaps someone may say: "I have endeavored to understand and apply the truth, but my problem has not yielded. What else must I do?" Can we not comfort ourselves by holding to God's promise as voiced by Jahaziel (II Chron. 20:15), "Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not your's, but God's"?
Does not this promise imply that we can drop all our burdened human effort in meeting the problem and, instead, keep turning to divine Love as All? Letting divine Love be All to us blots out discord from our thinking. Mere human effort cannot do it. But divine Love can, because divine Love is already all that is real. And it is thought-freeing to know that there are no problems to God, perfect Mind. Then how can there be any to His exact likeness, man, our true being?
In spite of error's fearful suggesting, God's tender love is unceasingly flowing out to us. In fact, we are in reality already embosomed in it. A hymn tells us (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 134),
Embosomed deep in Thy dear love,
Held in Thy law, I stand:
Thy hand in all things I behold,
And all things in Thy hand.
Then let us express divine Love to all. This will enable us to accept with calm trust Love's care for us. The ever-watchful Father-Mother God will not forsake His children. He will send His angels to help us.
Angels, the pure thoughts which come from God to man, testify to the law of infinite good and to the fact that there is one Mind, God. We are obedient to the angels when we rejoice in and practice what they tell us. For these pure thoughts of God will show us more clearly than ever before that good is All-in-all. Thus we shall find our difficulty resolved.
Since God's abundant goodness never changes, may we not expect daily blessings? Indeed we may, for as we adhere with gratitude to the law of good, the truth of being, we shall glimpse the spiritual significance of the Biblical words (II Kings 25:30), "His allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life."
