A group of Christian teenagers was asked to answer a question quickly, without thinking about it. The question had to do with whether God knows anything related to modern life. Virtually all of them said “no,” though upon further reflection, they changed their answer to “yes.” He is, after all, God!
Do we immediately think of God, Love, as relevant in our lives? When things are going well, we may not think of God much at all, not feeling the need of His help. But it’s particularly in the good we experience that we can most directly feel His relevance. As the Bible tells us, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17). God, the only cause and creator, is good and is the source of all good.
When we look for it, we can see this good expressed everywhere. As Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, puts it: “The modest arbutus sends her sweet breath to heaven. The great rock gives shadow and shelter. The sunlight glints from the church-dome, glances into the prison-cell, glides into the sick-chamber, brightens the flower, beautifies the landscape, blesses the earth” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 516).
