Editorial June 13, 1964 Issue

Responding to God's Power

Carl J. Welz

Respond is all that a reflection can do. Power to act and power to decide when to act belong to one standing before a mirror. The reflection responds, because it is a reflection. Man is the reflection of God.

When we are working through prayer to overcome a disease, we need to respond to the power of God. God is Truth: and as we acknowledge our true selfhood in His image, we find ourselves responding to Truth and overcoming error. Error is the belief that we are material personalities independent of God. This error includes disease, for the belief that man is governed by material law includes also the belief that something can go wrong.

A sincere request for healing by spiritual means is in itself a declaration of willingness to surrender material belief. But when a case does not respond immediately to treatment by prayer, it may indicate that the patient needs to acknowledge still more of his spiritual nature but doesn't do so. He may need to become more childlike.

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