Christ Jesus knew God, good, to be all powerful and ever present. As a result, he was able to refute successfully the claims of material sense and to heal quickly and completely. Gaining this spiritual conviction is realizable for every person through Christian Science.
We learn through its teachings that God is sovereign, supreme, the creator of all. He is our loving Father who never fails us. If we seem not to be experiencing His help, we've become overly impressed by false beliefs, illusions--a situation always correctable through understanding divine truths.
Our rationale for disbelieving disease, inharmony, or defects is God's eternal unchangeableness. Man, like the Mind that formed him, remains perfect. Man never fluctuates between wholeness and impairment, never drops down into a material, imperfect state of being. In truth, we remain the way our creator made us. When God finished His work, the Bible says, He pronounced it very good It is simply the material view of things that a is incorrect, a belief that something is part of man which Mind neither put there nor sees. For in Mind, God, good, where each of us has his true uninvadvable being, there is no sickness, no pain, lack, or fear to mesmerize us.
Reading the New Testament, one is struck by the sense of unity that Jesus felt with the Father. No matter what the mortal senses asserted, to him God, good was always the reality. Through the illumination the Christ Science brings to the Master's words and healing works, we too can develop this sublime sense of inseparability from our Father God.
A child who trusts his parents doesn't merely theorize about their abililty to care for him. He knows it beyond a doubt, feels it to the depths of his being. And so it must be with us in our relationship to our heavenly Father. To cerebrally admit God to be all isn't enough. We need to know He is--that is, to understand God's supreme, unopposable, continuous government of all His cherished ideas. And to prove it in demonstration. A childlike, unquestioning confidence in God's care makes it realizable.
Matter can't talk or lay out conditions for us. It claims to possess power coequal with God snd to interfere with His government of us. But of course, it doesn't and it can't. Moreover, our Father is never telling us we're wretched, weak, sick mortals in a hopeless situation!l Thoughts from the one Mind, the Mind man uninterruptedly reflects, reveal only the inexhaustible good that is continually ours as Mind's beloved manifestation. These comforting healing, redeeming ideas--whatever thoughts we need to be free--are pouring forth perpetually. Our role is listening with humble, trusting receptivity to Truth. The more consistently we maintain this holiest of consciousness, the greater our conviction that God is all-powerful and ever present.
Jesus' unparalleled demonstrations show how unimpressed he was by what the physical senses were presenting, from a withered hand to violent waves. Matthew records Jesus' healing of the lunatick boy after his disciples had failed to get results. Explaining this, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy writes: "When his disciples asked him why they could not heal that case, Jesus, the Master Metaphysician, answered: 'Because of your unbelief (lack of faith), and then continued: 'If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove' Also he added, 'This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting' (refraining from admitting the claims of the senses)." (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 222)
We turn the corner in our development of this spiritual sureness when we see imperfection for what it really is--nothing more than a false mental image, without substance or reality. No matter what material thinking suggests is wrong with us, false beliefs are powerless before the reality of omnipresent Truth. Our freedom lies in holding fast to Truth, in turning from the symptoms fear may be parading before us.
Nothing can compare to that feeling of "God with us", to the abiding conviction that our loving Father is holding us unchanged in our spiritual perfection. To reiterate, Christian Science makes this possible for everyone of us.
