There’s a well-known saying: “It’s too good to be true!” We’ve probably all found ourselves coming out with this phrase at times when something wonderful or amazing happens.
Recently, our family needed a new car. When, after much prayer, we received funds from an unexpected source that covered this cost, I caught myself saying to my husband, “This abundant supply, it’s just too good to be true!” But later in the day I began thinking about that statement. Why would anything be too good to be true?
We learn from the Bible that God is good. And in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, confirms that “in the Saxon and twenty other tongues good is the term for God” (p. 286), and she states that spiritual good is infinite: “The maximum of good is the infinite God and His idea, the All-in-all” (p. 103). Genesis 1:31 also states: “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” So could a God who is infinite good have anything but infinite good in store for His creation?
