"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." So reads the Bible promise. What is it that we are to ask for? We are to ask for "good things."Matt. 7:7, 11; What, then, is good?
Certainly good is not a kind of beneficent blob waiting for us to pick it up and use it. The theology of Christian Science defines genuine good as God, the one outpouring, ever-present, living power that meets all human needs. Acting with the divinely natural energy of omnipotent Love, good strengthens, redeems, heals, and blesses whatever comes within its focus—and its focus is infinite. All may have its blessings for the asking.
For the asking? Yes. Good's perfect gifts are always available to us; but mere recognition of the dynamism of good, like a spectator's appreciation of the graceful flight of a bird or a lovely moment in a dance, is not enough. We have something dynamic to do too. We must respond to good's openhanded giving with openhearted joy and gratitude and express it in the quality of our lives.
