“On the side of Good”

I will gain a balance on the side of  good, my true being.

This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to

overcome all error. On this rests the implicit faith

engendered by Christian Science, which appeals

intelligently to the facts of man's spirituality, individuality,

 to disdain the fears and destroy the discords of this

 material personality.¹                                                                    Mary Baker Eddy

We are taught through Genesis chapter 1 in our Holy Bible that God created all that was made and that He saw His creation as very good. Man and the universe created by God, Good, must then express and manifest this divine constant Good.

We are taught in Christian Science the ultimate importance of Genesis chapter 1 as a measuring stick for all things that comes to our thought, a distinguishing factor against the lies of the devil compared to God’s allness and Goodness.  We are told, “Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it good. Therefore evil, being contrary to good, is unreal, and cannot be the product of God.”²

God is All, therefore the claims of evil can be and must be removed from our thoughts so that we may see and follow God’s Goodness. The more we cultivate this activity, the more we see our divine right as the children of Good the more we are freed from the false claims of evil, lack, sickness, disease and death. The more time we waste in believing in and perpetuating the lies of error, evil, the constant false claims of an evil bad, the more our lives are drug in the mire of these lies. Our freedom comes from the stand on the side of Good.

As the children and heirs to the Christ we must spend our every moment magnifying the grace of God, the Truth of Life and its abundant Good. If we do not do this we are as the Prodigal Son eating the husks the swine eat and groveling in the dirt of life. What a waste of time!

It is like when Jesus asked the toiling fishermen (his disciples who had returned to their old ways after his crucifixion) if they had caught anything in their nets. “Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat?  They answered him, No. And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.  They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.”³

Jesus’ healing works constantly shined the light of Truth upon all discord, sickness, disease and death and revealed the power of Good, God. He didn’t have anything good to say about or to evil. He abolished it and taught his followers to do the same.

When we take the side of Good we too heal the discords, pains, fears, sicknesses, and sins that the devil throws at mankind. It is powerless in the presence of Good. But the importance of magnifying Good, realizing Good, sustaining and maintaining the divine Goodness of God in our thoughts cannot be stressed enough. The praise of Good and the life lived expressing Good is man’s purpose, work, and joy. The reward through the strife is the joy of seeing man’s constancy in the Allness of God’s precious Love for all mankind and His salvation from all evil.

When we’re tempted by the long nights of strife and the confusions of the day, let us take our firm stand on the side of Good. Let us see that we are the heirs with the Christ, that our Creator is the God of All Good. Let us beat down the temptations of evil, sin, bad feelings, anger, resentments, and fear, with the trust that Good, God, is the victor over every evil claim. Let us rejoice that we are the children of Good and honor Him by constantly fighting for the side of Good.

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1 Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy page 104 starting on line 30 to n.p.

2 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 339 lines 7-10
3 The King James Version of The Holy Bible John 21 vss. 5, 6