Article March 14, 1988 Issue

Finding strength and healing

The Christian Science Monitor

In the third chapter of the book of Acts there's an account of Peter and John's healing of a man who had been lame since birth.^{See Acts 3:1–8 .} The healing was so quick and complete that the man's feet and ankles were immediately strengthened, and he went "into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God."

Because God exists, we can never be without the strength and help we need. The source of our strength isn't really muscles, bones, or anything material, even though it seems to be. The actual source of our strength is God, Spirit. "Ascribe ye strength unto God," the Scriptures teach us. "The God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people." ^{Ps. 68:34, 35.}

Even in the most difficult or discouraging situation, we can "ascribe ... strength unto God" —and therefore find that strength is ours as well, since man is made in God's image. Our true being is the likeness of the Divine Being, expressing spiritual strength and wholeness. To acknowledge this and to discern it in prayer enable us to experience the bodily, as well as the moral and spiritual, strength we need. We can find, as the lame man did, that we are able to do what we wouldn't otherwise understand we had the capacity to do.

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