An invalid was once asked by Christ Jesus, "Wilt thou be made whole?" ^{John 5:6.} The man answered by explaining why he had never been healed. But Jesus cured him instantly, proving that the healing Christ, Truth, isn't limited by mortal horizons.

Christian Science is putting the same question today to every individual and to mankind: Do you want to be made whole—that is, understand and prove man's complete perfection? This invitation is also a challenge. To find ourselves complete as God's reflection, His entirely spiritual man, we need to discern His allness. This means spiritualizing our thought. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God," ^{Matt. 5:8.} said Jesus.

Divine Science, which, applied assiduously, brings us to this discernment, is no technique of human self-fulfillment; it's the God-given means by which we give up human inadequacy for spiritual sufficiency. Progressively, as we exchange incorrect concepts of God, we put on the Mind of Christ.

To a divided world desperate for unity, Science presents divine Love, the Principle of all harmony. In giving us the term "Principle" for God, Mrs. Eddy brings out His nature as the source of divine law. She also states, "God is harmony's selfhood." ^{Unity of Good, p. 13.} Many of us know we must obey God if we want inner peace. But do we really understand that we live in a framework of exact law, which supports every good thought, every unselfed desire, at the same time as it outlaws and ultimately destroys evil notions and intentions? There is great comfort in this truth.

Whatever imperfection or evil appears to exist is illusion, a mistake about the Almighty's handiwork. Anything that is no part of the All must obviously be nothingness.

Once this simple but profound evaluation of creation is grasped, the completeness of the salvation offered by Christian Science becomes evident. We see, for instance, that fear is impossible in a wholly good universe. But we may have to settle down to prayer and specific reasoning before we are certain that because God is divine Love and man has his being in Love we ourselves are actually fearless and loving. As we persist in basing our view of creation, which includes our own spiritual selfhood, on scientific logic, we will find fear fading and unselfed love increasing.

We'll go on to see that because divine Mind, or Spirit, is infinite presence, there is no matter in God's creation. We have a basis in Truth from which we can rout sickness—sometimes instantly, sometimes by persevering in prayer and correct reasoning. Since sickness can't be in non-existent matter nor in Mind's idea, man, there isn't any place for it to be! Sickness is erroneous thought—a denial of the truth of our eternal health as God's man. When we reject sickness, it's on its way out. And when God becomes more to us than our diminishing fears of sickness, then His will of perfection for us appears as bodily health.

So it is with every facade of evil that presents itself. Every battle is solely a mental one. It is a process—brief or more prolonged—of ardently embracing truth, of playing down and annulling error; of upholding zealously the facts of spiritual creation and whittling down evil to what it eternally is, zero. "Let us remember," Mrs. Eddy heartens us, "that God—good—is omnipotent; therefore evil is impotent. There is but one side to good,—it has no evil side; there is but one side to reality, and that is the good side." ^{Christian Healing, p. 10.}

"Wilt thou be made whole?" Completeness is what we're made for. In absolute fact we're at home in it. Isn't that why we never stop reaching out for something better? Our journey to our Father's kingdom, whatever it costs us in the sacrifice of human belief, is really the road to what we already are in Him. We don't have to wonder how we can become complete. Through prayer and obedience we have to catch up with our real selfhood, the man we have in truth always been and can't help being—God's complete man.