THE Bible tells us that a thousand years are as a day and a day as a thousand years in the sight of God. In modern speech this means that our finite sense of time is unknown to God. Mrs. Eddy refers to the fact that Christ Jesus was also free from this sense limitation when in "Unity of Good" she writes: "Jesus required neither cycles of time nor thought in order to mature fitness for perfection and its possibilities" (p.11). Jesus' healings were instantaneous. He recognized the real man as unlimited by the beliefs of time, yet human experience at every step and in every direction is bound by this belief and also the belief of limited space. According to the law of mortal belief, all things have beginning and ending and thus are limited either in point of time or space or both.
Mortal belief founds its suppositional universe upon a false concept of God, a concept requiring space and time in which to perfect His work. From this time-and-space limited cause error deduces its material universe, which is also limited in time and space. Not even mortal mind would claim that the creature is superior to the creator, and that a limited god could create an unlimited universe. Both of these limiting beliefs must be guarded against in the work of the Christian Scientist. The most common form of limitation which error consciously seeks to impose upon the efforts of Christian Scientists to heal, is that time is necessary; that the healing must require a day, a week, a month, or even years; that a chronic case which has been developing through many years must in consequence yield slowly, if it yields at all. Mortal belief takes cognizance only of material concepts, and its suppositional laws of time and space do not apply to spiritual facts. The omnipotence and omnipresence of God is a spiritual fact which denies the validity of any claim, belief, law, or assertion opposed to it. The immortality of God, of Life, is a spiritual fact which denies the existence of anything that could or would even attempt to delay the operation of good. The realization of the omnipresence and immortality of God, good, is an effectual bar to the beliefs of time and space as limiting the activities of man.
Health is a spiritual fact. Health must be wherever God is, and always present with God. Health is not dependent upon time; it always exists. It is not dependent upon space; it exists throughout the unlimited and illimitable realm of Spirit. It is as infinite, unlimited, and illimitable as is the infinite Principle of all being. God's law of health is self-enforcing, and that instantly and eternally. There is no belief of a chronic ailment, or a severe illness "hard to meet," or an unpardonable sin, which can delay for one instant or interfere in any manner with the continual, continuous, and immediate operation of this law of health.
