Article August 8, 1988 Issue

The greatest reason to rejoice

It's important to be grateful for God's goodness. It's just as important to know why we can always rejoice.

Jane Clark Walker

Whenever I experienced protection—like a near miss on the freeway—I used to think, "Isn't the understanding of God I'm gaining wonderful! That could have been a really nasty accident." Or when I was healed through prayer of some ailment, I often thought, "The law of God is such a blessing. That could have been the start of something serious." But as I've grown in understanding God through Christian Science, I've come to see that neither conclusion is scientifically admissible.

The truth of God and man is wonderful and an incomparable blessing. But it involves far more than saving us from accidents or even healing us physically. This Science of Christ logically asserts that because God, Spirit, good, is All, evil in any guise is not just avoidable or healable but provably unreal. The recognition of God's oneness and allness is the recognition not of harmony miraculously preserved or restored but of harmony as divine—uninterrupted and uninterruptible.

We should be grateful whenever we see or experience healing and protection as the result of prayer. But we need to be aware that we are not simply learning how to control evils great or small; otherwise we may be accepting evil as a real, opposing power. The only true conclusion as well as the only fail-safe starting point is the great spiritual fact that God, good, is actually unopposed, here and now, because He is omnipotent. A genuine Christian healing is evidence of the understanding and demonstration in some measure of this law of God.

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