Article March 27, 2017 Issue

‘Behold, I make all things new’

Keith S. Collins

When we are searching for healing, it might be tempting to think we need to restore something (for example, health, a friendship, a sense of home) that we’ve lost. But healing in Christian Science is always a step forward, not backward, because every healing is a result of a new understanding of God—something we’ve never quite seen in that way before.

Likewise, we may know of other people who have been healed in Christian Science of the same kind of problem we have, and wish for the same result. But the way each healing comes about is unique, the result of conscious, individual advancement in the understanding of God. The biblical assertion from the divine creator, “Behold, I make all things new” (Revelation 21:5), is a glorious, healing promise that is ours forever.

If the healing we are looking for does not come immediately, we may also be tempted to go back to our own past inspiration and try to revive it. Certainly, gratitude for God’s care as evidenced throughout our lives can be important to healing. But fresh inspiration is available here and now, as God, divine Mind, is perpetually active, lifting us above all sense of human limitations. As Lamentations exults, God’s compassions are “new every morning” (3:23). There is nothing of God’s goodness that is in the past but not also in the present, because good is spiritual and eternal, never material and limited.

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