Article December 14, 1981 Issue

Expanding love welcomes the healing Christ

CARL J. WELZ

For one seeking a healing, what would be more encouraging than the thought that Christ Jesus himself was on his way down the road, and that within an hour he would come and say, "Rise and walk. Be whole. Be what the divine Mind made you to be!" Would there be any doubt as to the result? Is there any condition that Christ could not heal?

But what would do the healing? What was it in Jesus' time that healed the maimed, restored the lunatic, gave sight to the sightless, raised the dead? Was it a physical body named Jesus? Did his flesh and bones have healing power? Or was it the Spirit he manifested? He said of himself that he could do nothing alone, that his Father, God, Spirit, did the works.^{See John 5:30; 14:10.} Jesus' whole earthly life illustrated the spiritual reality—the Christ-idea that shows what Life really is and reveals man to be the reflection or manifestation of that divine Life. And when did he say he really began? "Before Abraham was, I am."^8:58.

The human Jesus walked among earth's people at a certain time in history. He was the purest human concept of the divine and timeless idea, which is here always—and particularly evident now to human thought. As we recognize the ever-present spiritual idea, we can expect to see its effects in the home and wherever there is need for harmony restored, love expressed, limitation overcome, healing to become a fact.

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