You've been earnestly praying for physical healing, but healing seems to be taking longer than usual. Or you're a Christian Science practitioner who has a patient whose healing is delayed. You've faithfully given Christian Science treatment, but the illness hasn't yielded. In either case, it's not an easy situation to be in (I know, I've been in both positions). Things can get pretty discouraging. It would be so good to feel the healing touch of love!
Love is what people felt in Jesus' presence. Sometimes the love in Jesus' heart caused him spontaneously to reach out to touch the one in need of healing—Peter's mother-in-law, whom he healed of a fever; a leper he cleansed of his leprosy. See Matt. 8:14 , 15 and Mark 1:40—42. In other cases, Jesus didn't touch the person physically. But each time, the individual felt the touch of divine Love, which is God—and that Love healed. As a hymn says of Jesus,
He stood of old, the holy Christ,
Amid the suffering throng,
With whom his lightest touch sufficed
To make the weakest strong. Christian Science Hymnal, No. 96 .
