Editorial March 1, 1982 Issue

"No other sign"

WILLIAM E. MOODY

Healing—a cause for rejoicing! And from early biblical times many have recognized the evidence of healing through prayer as the certain symbol of God's presence and love. His supreme power, operating in human experience with the force of divine law, has moved—and removed—mountains when sickness and pain have loomed up. Sincere, patient followers of the Christ, Truth, can find that consecrated prayer for healing and regeneration is answered.

Perhaps the most dread disease on record in Bible history was leprosy. The sufferer was an outcast. No one, it seemed, cared for the leper. And yet there were instances of spiritual healing that surely gave evidence of divine care—signifying a higher source of healing comfort than anything offered by ritualistic religion or medicine. The prophet Elisha once healed a prominent citizen of leprosy nearly three thousand years ago.^{See II Kings 5:1-14 .} The divine law had superseded what seemed a physical law and wiped out its apparent effects. Spiritual healing demonstrates mortal "laws" of disease to be erroneous; there is no law of disease.

It is further recorded that when Christ Jesus ministered to the people centuries later, he healed a number of leprosy cases, including, on one occasion, ten lepers at the same time. One of these certainly appreciated the significance of his healing as a confirmation of God's reality and power. He saw his healing as a sign and glorified God.^{See Luke 17:15 .}

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