Helping the World Connect With God's Power

        What continues to impel me to blog on Christ Jesus and Christian Science, is the desire to help people discover and utilize God's healing power in their lives.  And what I'm thinking about this morning is His priceless help in finding health.

        Every now and then I encounter someone who, though he or she has been praying for recovery from some illness, has concluded that it just isn't God's will for them to be healed.  Of course, I always take exception to this.  Often I begin to tell them about some of the many physical healings my family and I and people I know have experienced by relying God with the understanding of Him we have gained through Christian Science.

        Those who are accustomed to praying for God's  help in difficulties--as well as those who are not--can, through the teachings of Christian Science, learn how to rely on Him for healing of disease and bodily suffering--to rely on God, who, the Bible states, "healeth all thy diseases."  (Psalms 103:3)

        As those of us who love and revere Jesus know, the Master turned constantly to God for the healing of pain, disease, deformity, and even saving from death.  The Bible indicates that Jesus knew God would hear. The Saviour's understanding of man's oneness with the creator must have assured him that God answers every call, and that God's will is always good, always for harmony which includes physical harmony (health). And Jesus promises, "Verily, verily, I say unto  you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."  (John 14:12)

        Healing can be accomplished as one understands the spiritual law underlying Jesus' teachings and works.  These divine and unchanging laws are explained fully and clearly in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.  The book teaches how to put into practice the spiritual truths found in Jesus' words and acts.  They make it possible for any individual to heal physical maladies through God's supreme power, even as Jesus utilized God's power.  "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," this book points out on page 166.

        Man is actually spiritual, not material, not at the mercy of fear and pain.  He can never, for even a moment be deprived of his Father's care.  Bringing such truths to bear on a particular trouble restores harmony and wholeness.

        As our prayers stem from love for God and man and a desire to know more of His perfect creation, we're seeking divine help in the most effective way.  Prayer in its highest sense is the discernment and understanding of God's perfect universe, including man.  Disease and suffering are misconceptions, a false sense of what God has created, and such misconceptions are cast out by spiritual understanding.

        There are men, women, and children all over the world who are experiencing healing right now.  They are realizing the curative, restorative power of God, divine Love, in action.  God's will for all His children is clearly all good--health included.