Editorial April 22, 1996 Issue

God's willingness to heal

Russ Gerber

Questions are a significant part of the mail we receive. Questions about the periodicals we publish, about the status of a particular manuscript, about the practice of Christian Science. We welcome hearing from readers and contributors—comments as well as questions—and we're as interested as anyone in finding and providing a helpful response.

One place for such response is our column called "A Questions & Answers Exchange." This column is a recent addition to the Sentinel, and it appears every other week. I was looking over some of the questions that have come to us recently and spotted one that raised serious concern about whether God was willing to heal everyone. Would a person have to reform before he could be helped? Were there people who couldn't be helped by prayer?

The question reminded me of a remark made many years ago by someone who called me. The man had wrestled and wrestled with whether he could be healed through prayer to God. Mistakes, backsliding, sin, failure—you name the trouble he had experienced, and he considered it one more mark against him. He kept trying to explain all he had been sorting through in his life. It was clear he was struggling with feelings that he just wasn't worthy to be healed. Then he paused and said, "To be honest, I feel like I have to be perfect in order to become perfect."

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