A Christian Science Healing

"I know how that leper must have felt" my mother said when she was healed of an extreme skin condition that had plagued her for years.  She had attended a Christian Science lecture and upon walking back down the aisle of the church afterwards, one of the spiritual truths that the speaker had shared lit up for her.  Suddenly, with great clarity, it dawned on her, "Why God never afflicted me with this problem!  It is unreal!  It has always been unreal!"  Almost at once, the healing began.  And in a few days time, she later told me, there was not a trace of the condition.  Her joy knew no bounds, as you can well imagine. Before she was introduced to the teachings of Christian Science, she had had help from caring doctors.  Unfortunately, they just weren't able to offer any relief, and her suffering, with two small children, was very challenging.

This wonderful proof of God's healing power which Christian Science makes possible for any earnest seeker (thanks to the discovery and founding by  Mary Baker Eddy) came to my thought this week when I read a powerful poem by someone who posts on another website.  In it, he describes Jesus' healing of the lepers.  This is found in Luke 17:12-19.  For those readers who don't have a Bible at hand, it is as follows:

"And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests.  And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God.
And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed?  but where are the nine?
There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole."

How thankful my mother was, and I am, that the divine healing practiced and taught by Christ Jesus is available in our day.