Article June 7, 1975 Issue

True Humility Promotes Healing

CYRIL ALEXANDER BARBER

Christian Science, which Mary Baker Eddy discovered and founded, explains that God's creation is never marred but remains forever perfect and intact as the expression of the allness of His loveliness. Just as beautiful silverware displayed in a jeweler's shop is not impaired in its craftsmanship because it may appear distorted through a rain-splashed window, so the identities created by God never cease to be living proof of His excellence as their Maker.

To know this is a help when divine Mind's spiritual creation seems obscured by a distorting screen of matter and evil. Then we can be sure that when any part of this overlay of lies is penetrated by Christ, the true idea of God and man, creation will be found still unsullied and unharmed. The truth will make itself known by its beneficent, improving influence on the human situation, healing what is sick, harmonizing what is discordant, stirring our deepest intuition to recognize the power of God at work.

The slightest recognition of God brings a sense of humility, an awareness of power not originating in ourselves. We kneel, mentally, in His presence. If we are to advance in the spiritual understanding that brings God's presence and power more fully to bear in our lives, we will do well to think more deeply about the quality of humility, which is inseparable from the realization of His blessings.

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