Article May 11, 2015 Issue

A timeless invitation to healing

Dorcas Strong

The Gospel of John speaks of a pool by the sheep market at Jerusalem, where many people in need of healing waited for the waters to be troubled. They believed that whoever was first to step in after the water was stirred would be cured of whatever disease he or she had.

Seeing a man lying by the pool who had been ill for 38 years, Christ Jesus asked him compassionately, “Wilt thou be made whole?” The man replied that he had no one to help him get into the water. Jesus, knowing God’s ever-present power to heal, responded, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” The Bible declares, “And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked” (see John 5:2–9).

“Wilt thou be made whole?” is a timeless invitation of Christ, Truth. Naturally, every sufferer from fleshly ills wants to be made whole, restored to a normal state of mental and physical health. To be whole implies being sound, intact, unimpaired. Jesus’ recognition of the man’s spiritual perfection as the image and likeness of God cut through the man’s despair and awakened him to his present state of wholeness. This freedom, this normalcy, is available to everyone who understands that our genuine selfhood, the reflection of Spirit, is now and forever as perfect as our divine Principle, God.

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