Editorial February 26, 1979 Issue

Joy leads to healing

Naomi Price

Flowers, a kindly visit from a sympathetic but cheerful friend, a loving message, some good news. Anything that lifts an invalid from depression and self-pity helps to speed his recovery. This is well known. Joy has a healing effect.

Health and rejoicing go together, but not only in that order. One may rejoice because one is healthy and sees health in others, but Christ Jesus showed through his example that if one is conscious of the spiritual, scientific fact that God maintains the health and harmony of all His children and perpetually supplies them with abundant good, one can rejoice in that fact even though the physical senses may testify to discord and lack. And if we do rejoice in the truth, this often opens the way for the human situation to improve. Jesus proved this when he restored Lazarus to life after four days in the tomb and fed multitudes in a desert place.

Joy comes easily to the followers of Christ Jesus. He teaches us that God's goodness is abundant and uninterrupted and explains that the divine creator maintains His creation in perfect harmony. "Nothing shall by any means hurt you" Luke 10:19; was the Master's assurance to seventy of his immediate followers, and we can know that this promise is valid for all of us now when we accept his teaching of God's inexhaustible love for man.

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