Article June 7, 1999 Issue

Watch for perfection

Start from a spiritual basis to find healing.

By Mark Swinney

With so much going on in the world, there certainly seems to be quite a bit to watch. On the cover of every issue of this magazine are Christ Jesus' words "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch" (Mark 13:37). Sometimes I've asked myself, "What am I watching?" And, "What am I expecting to see?"

The best solutions in life often come when we watch what's right—or, in other words, when what is absolutely true is primary in our thought. Yielding to that truth is incredibly more fruitful than ruminating over what is wrong. Jesus, the one who urged us all to watch, was surrounded by plenty of evidence of disease and lack and hatred, yet that doesn't appear to be what he regarded as the truth, or what his thought was focused on.

Sometimes huge crowds of people would flock to him with their problems, yet he made this astounding statement to his followers: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt. 5:48). Could it be that Jesus was able to heal sickness and sin because of what he knew, spiritually, to be the truth?

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