God Wants Us Well

        Proof of this is found in the healing work Christ Jesus did and promised that his followers would do. The Master healed countless individuals who were being deprived of their physical well-being, showing that sickness is a violation of our inherent right as children of God to experience harmony in every aspect of our lives.

        An example of this is given in the thirteenth chapter of Luke, which tells of a woman so infirm she couldn't even lift herself up.  Even though she had been in this condition for eighteen years, Jesus restored her to complete freedom through his understanding of God's law.  Would Jesus have used his knowledge of divine law to remove physical ills if we had no God-derived right to be free from them?

        I love these words from Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures where she says:  "Because man-made systems insist that man becomes sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with the laws of God, are we to believe it?  Are we to believe an authority which denies God's spiritual command relating to perfection, -- an authority which Jesus proved to be false?  He did the will of the Father.  He healed sickness in defiance of what is called material law, but in accordance with God's law, the law of Mind."

        You and I can avail ourselves of the healing power Jesus employed.  What we need is a demonstrable grasp of what he knew about God and man, and here the teachings of Christian Science are invaluable. Underlying Jesus' words and deeds was eternal divine law, which we all can learn to apply.  Through prayer that springs from an understanding of God as the perfect, totally good Principle of the universe, and of man's actual nature as His spiritual image, we can stay well.  And get well when needed.

        Our spiritual status may seem far-fetched and unattainable.  But the fact remains that the true selfhood of us all is incorporeal, diseaseless, never helpless.  Our real being is the offspring of God, infinite Spirit.  We live in Spirit and are eternally above and apart from physicality and suffering and dread of becoming ill.  Wholeness if the very essence of God's nature, and it is individualized in His image, man.

        The spiritual truth of man is basic to Christ-healing, and as we awaken to this divine fact, any of us can prove our God-given right to be well.