Article April 21, 1997 Issue

Perfection and physical healing

Robert G. Lawrence

While I was attempting to fix a garden sprinkler, the screwdriver slipped, injuring my hand. I immediately turned to God in prayer. My prayer affirmed: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." This is "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health (p. 468).

Looking away from the injury, away from matter, to divine Truth, I thought, "If I really believed this statement, I would be healed right now!" The honesty and humility of this simple observation instantaneously healed what had just moments before been a three-inch-long welt in the palm of my hand. This healing was very meaningful to me. I had witnessed Love's immediate healing power, which came in direct proportion to my acceptance of man's flawless being as God's image and likeness.

The Bible is chock-full of examples of God's perfection. Christ Jesus most especially demonstrated this perfection in his rejection of all that was unlike God's totally good creation. Through the fullness of divine Love and the depths of his own compassion, Jesus was witness to God's unerring care for man.

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