Article January 9, 1989 Issue

Hopes fulfilled in healing

When sickness seems overwhelming, hope can help us advance toward healing.

Donald M. Swinney

What hope we find in the words of Christ Jesus "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."^{Luke 12:32.} This assurance of God's goodness is not merely cheerful encouragement. The Master proved these words to be true and applicable to human needs. Through the power of God, Spirit, he restored sight to the blind, feet to the lame, and freedom to the repentant sinner. Jesus showed in his healing ministry that God's will is good and that each one of us is meant to be harmonious, safe, and secure.

Today we can still hope in God and His Christ and find fulfillment. Our basic need is not to have Jesus personally present but to understand better the Christ, the saving Truth that Jesus exemplified in his life. The divine idea that comforts and heals is always present in consciousness. Through spiritual sense we can discern its message and come to know that we—and all— are in truth God's immortal, perfect man, His spiritual image and likeness.

God, infinite Love, is forever protecting, governing, and caring for us as His blessed offspring. The allness of His infinite goodness precludes disease, lack, loneliness. Gaining this knowledge, we learn why we don't have to be afraid. We find the divine power that meets every need. We begin to abandon our trust in the deceptive senses, which depict man as an imperfect mortal who includes both good and evil. We place our faith in the truth of being, which holds that we are really spiritual and include good alone. Praying from this standpoint, we can begin to prove that discord has no legitimate place in our lives.

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