Article May 8, 1926 Issue

The Blessed Now

RHODA A. HYMAN

In I John we read, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God." "The sons of God"! The perfect children of the perfect God! This perfection is man's birthright, and "now is the accepted time" in which to claim it. Said Job, "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee." Job realized that peace, health, happiness, yea, infinite good, had been bestowed on man by his all-loving Father, and that an acquaintance with this truth about God and man would bring one into the conscious possession of good.

Sometimes it is said: Christian Science may heal me, but it will take a long time. But time has nothing to do with the practice of Christian Science. It is Truth, not time, that heals. The Word of God heals quickly, completely, and permanently. Regardless of how long the error may have seemed or claimed to be real, it need not be so any longer. No form of evil, no manifestation of discord or inharmony, can exist in the presence, or consciousness, of an understanding of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God, good. In reality, error is nothing; because God never created it. And since error is nothing, it never had a beginning. Thus understanding, we are freed from the mesmeric suggestion that error has been real for a long time, and that it will take a long time to dispel or destroy it. Now is the time for all to experience and enjoy perfect health and perfect happiness, because such is God's plan for His beloved son.

Jesus never told any one that it would take time to be healed. On the contrary, he gave many examples of instantaneous healing, as in the case of the woman "which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years." To the blind man who "sat by the way side begging" he said, "Receive thy sight;" and instantly the man was healed of blindness. To the one who was a leper he said, "Be thou clean;" and again the Bible records an instantaneous healing. In the first of these cases, as well as in other healings which Jesus brought about, the patient was said to have been afflicted for many years. Yet the healings were quick, complete, and permanent. The reason for this was Jesus' clear understanding of perfect God and perfect man, and of God's ability and power to supply all good; in fact, it was the understanding that God had already supplied all good to all of His children, and that nothing could separate them from it.

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