Article June 5, 2017 Issue

Universal physicians

Brian Kissock

In the synagogue in Nazareth, Christ Jesus once referenced this compelling statement: “Physician, heal thyself” (Luke 4:23). What did he mean? It seems the scribes and Pharisees (doctors of the Jewish law) in the synagogue had little understanding of what he meant, or didn’t want to know, because his healing work confounded them. But was he speaking only to those there that day, or to his disciples and to us—for all time?

Jesus showed that we all have the capacity and capability to heal and be healed, to understand what true health is. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy states that a fundamental part of the revelation of Christian Science is: “The proof, by present demonstration, that the so-called miracles of Jesus did not specially belong to a dispensation now ended, but that they illustrated an ever-operative divine Principle” (p. 123).

Paul wrote to the Philippians, “It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (2:13). As we understand more and more that God is unfolding only good and let the Christ, which Jesus manifested, work within our consciousness, we see the deific order and harmony increasingly evidenced in our lives.

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