No record has been kept of the preventive aspect of Jesus' ministry, and, in the very nature of things, such a record is impossible; but we can readily perceive that the divine understanding which healed all manner of disease was no less potent for its prevention.
In healing sickness and sin, the Master in no wise acted in opposition to God's law; but, on the contrary, he healed in obedience to it. He said, "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me."
Jesus came not to destroy the works of the Father, but to fulfil the law of Love; and, in healing sickness and sin, he but restored man to the true understanding of his birthright, destroyed the mistaken sense of the reality of evil which had bound him, and freed him from the effects of his mistaken belief. A clear and reverent understanding of God is not consistent with the belief that He is the creator of evil and sickness; nor can a right estimate of Jesus' miracles be based upon a belief that he destroyed that which God creates. The inevitable conclusion must be that God is not the author of sickness and sin, and that Jesus, knowing this, was able to demonstrate their unreality The constant knowing that disease of every name and nature is not of God, that it is therefore unreal and does not pertain to man, the divine concept, renders the belief in it powerless and inoperative, awakens human understanding to the great fact that man is not the helpless and hopeless victim of disease which the accumulated teachings of centuries declare him to be, and that he is not in bondage to the fear of disease which has relentlessly pursued him.
