If we see or experience injustice, we might react with anger or resentment or just feel helpless. But Christian Science uncovers the root of any injustice, which can be anything from ignorance of God, good, and the nature of His creation to a blatant disregard for God. And through our own spiritual growth, we can discover how a better understanding of God and His creation can reverse and eliminate injustices.
Years ago, I was in a business relationship with an individual whom I believed to have an honorable character and to share my ethical values. However, he started behaving in ways that I believed seriously harmed our business dealings. When I found it wise to legally dissolve the relationship, this person took steps to resist proper legal proceedings. I was angry, resentful, and overwhelmed by this.
I reached out to a Christian Science practitioner, and we prayed together, acknowledging God as Principle and as expressing justice, wisdom, and goodness throughout His creation. The Bible says that God is “excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice” (Job 37:23).
During this time, it became clear to me that in God’s universe – the only real universe – there is no absence of light: no ignorance, willfulness, self-righteousness, lawlessness, or injustice. While sometimes the obstacles facing me seemed Goliath-size, I stayed focused on praying, including listening for divine guidance and following God’s direction.
One day, while I was sitting at my desk, a gentle thought came to call the bank to sort things out, despite having tried this before with no success. I did so and was connected with someone new, who was able to help me complete the steps that effectively dissolved the business relationship. Justice had been restored.
I thought that was the conclusion of the experience, but 40 years later, the memory of it forcefully resurfaced. It felt like a dream and included a vivid rehearsal of the struggle, but left out all the prayer that had been done at the time.
One very early morning, I woke up with a desire to just feel close to God. While studying the chapter “Science of Being” in “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy, I glimpsed the spiritual fact that because God is Spirit, His entire creation – including me – is spiritual. I could not have been separated from God 40 years ago and was not separated from God now, by either memories or dreams. As God’s image and likeness, I reflect – manifest and express – all the qualities of Spirit. These qualities are my true substance and connect me to God, Spirit.
Returning to the memory, I examined the whole experience from a spiritual viewpoint, confirming that I had never been separated from God. The memory was without substance and had no spiritual basis. I saw that no unjust experience can exist in God or His universe, which is where we all really exist. The memory dropped away and no longer upset me.
Because we are under the care and guidance of God, divine Love, justice is available even in the most unjust situations. In prayer, I found it important to be honest with myself about feeling self-will, self-justification, anger, and condemnation. When we identify and drop these, it allows us to put all of our prayer and effort into a genuine desire that God’s will be done.
When dealing with his own sense of deep injustice, the biblical character Job says, “Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity” (Job 31:6). And Mrs. Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, writes, “I will love, if another hates. 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” (“Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896,” p. 104).
We can grow spiritually to put all the weight of our thought on the side of good – of letting God’s will be done. Then we feel the conviction that God is just and that justice will be done. Christ Jesus proved that as our thought draws closer to God, we rise, not fall. As we grow spiritually, we rise to experience justice in all areas of life.
God’s will for His creation is justice, fairness, and equality, because man (the true, spiritual identity of each of us) is the reflection of God, and God is just. In God’s kingdom, no injustice exists. In reality, no person is unable to hear God’s messages, and nothing and no one can obstruct our expression of God’s qualities. Truth uncovers, corrects, and removes the cause of injustices, bringing justice and harmony to light.
Adapted from an article published in the April 6, 2026, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
