Allow me to suggest that you can. Although what I'm thinking about this morning is directed primarily to those who visit this blog and are not Christian Scientists, I trust it may prove helpful to any reader -- believers and non. No one has to put up with feeling ill.
You may be someone who believes in God, who relies on divine power for help in many ways. But you have not been taught to turn to Him for healing. Or you may not give God a thought. This is possible, in these times, I realize. But you should be doing both!
Let me start with God, with the Bible. This verse from the Old Testament offers eternal comfort to anyone needing to experience better health. "I am the Lord that healeth thee." (Exodus 15:26) The Bible speaks of the all-power of God, Spirit. It tells of men and women through the ages who have proved God's uplifting and healing power. Paaramount among these, Christ Jesus put his total trust in God in all the circumstances of daily life. He did mighty works of healing through what he knew of God's power and of man's nature as the child of God.
Christians very rightly gain tremendous inspiration from studying Jesus' life and works. A person could never feel too much reverence for what our Saviour said, taught, and did for us. But it is equally right for you and me to understand the Christ, or Truth, demonstrated in his life, words, and works. Our Master's unequaled example was not merely to inspire mankind but to help us to understand how to be free from every form of material bondage, physical suffering included. He promises, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." (John 14:12).
This can be accomplished as one understand the spiritual truths, or laws, underlying Jesus' words and deeds. Explained fully and clearly in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, this scientificaly Christian way of health does not ignore disease; it undermines the very foundation of disease. It enables one to master fear and the discord associated with it, through applying to one's own life the spiritual truths found in Jesus' teachings and acts.
Showing the spiritual nature of health, Christian Science teaches that God, Spirit, who maintains man, knows nothing about sickness, nor does His creation, man. This might seem unrealistic to some people. Nonetheless, such a view is backed up by the first account of creation in the Bible, where man is declared to be the handiwork of God. Since you and I are actually God's spiritual, perfect offspring, we can't be deprived of God's care, can't be robbed of the spiritual well-being He provides. This is our true health, our wholeness. Since we have our perpetual being in Him, divine Spirit, we are not at the mercy of fear or disease.
The spiritual is the actual. Man is not, in fact, what the physical senses report -- flesh, blood, and bones. The material present an illlusory view of man. If man is the image of God, good, made in His likeness, then you and I are, of necessity, spiritual, perfect right now.
"To ignore God as of little use in sickness is a mistake. Instead of thrusting Him aside in times of bodily trouble and waiting for the hour of strength in which to acknowledge Him, we should learn that He can do all things for us in sickness as in health." (Science and Health, page 166)
I am not writing airy things to you. Were I to list in detail the physical healings I've had through the years from relying on God's power, you might not have time to read them. Just let me say that obtaining the book I mentioned above could be what you are looking for. What do you have to lose? Nothing. And you may well gain more than you know.
