Article December 21, 1946 Issue

The Immediacy of Healing

KATHRYN PAULSON

"Immediately their eyes received sight" (Matt. 20:34). "Immediately she was made straight" (Luke 13:13). "Immediately the leprosy departed from him" (Mark 1:42). Instantaneous healings, every one—each demonstrating the immediacy of Life and Love, the ever-availability of Truth, the spiritual understanding of Mind.

Often we ponder the works of Jesus, humbly seeking to follow more closely in his healing footsteps, and often we may question ourselves as to what it is that stands between us and instantaneous healing. A dictionary definition of the word "immediate" is "without an intervening object," and "object" itself is defined as a concept, or thought.

Absolutely speaking, of course, nothing intervenes between God and man, nothing stands between Mind and its idea, for Mind and its idea are one and inseparable. So, if we do not immediately refute a false claim of discord, let us look to the "little foxes" of mortal mind, to the intervening thoughts that would vainly claim to separate one's concept of himself from that of man, God's image. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, bids us (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 154), "Never desert the post of spiritual observation and self-examination." And the Christian Scientist who is faithful at this post will find his work more fruitful than that of the student who turns his examination upon everyone except himself.

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