Article February 1, 2014

Healing

E. B. L.

Originally published in the April 1, 1891 issue of the Christian Science Series (Vol. 2, No. 23)

A short time ago a dear woman, who had been in bondage for years from numerous mortal beliefs, said to me: “Perhaps it is not the Lord’s will that I be healed.” She said this in all sincerity, and apparently with the earnest desire to be reconciled to His will, if she could only know what it was. The tone of voice, and her manner touched me greatly. I longed to have her know the Truth, and be free. This attitude of mind, however, is so frequently met with in patients, especially among persons who have had religious training, that we wish to consider it briefly from a scriptural standpoint.

What does it mean to be healed in Truth? “To make every whit whole” is one answer, and is probably as good a one as could be found in this connection. “Be thou whole” was the declaration of the Great Physician, when the divine thought touched one of his patients, and healed him. We cannot conceive of wholeness without including health of mind and body.

The Scriptures and Science and Health teach that health is not only strictly in accord with divine law, but is one of the evidences of obedience thereto. This is what Christianity is in its purity, simply living in obedience to Divine Principle. Jesus said: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” This was said during his discourse on the Mount. Immediately after he came down from the Mount, a leper came to him, and was cleansed of his leprosy. Thus Jesus proved in this, and countless other instances, that healing always is in accord with the Divine will.

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