It is quite a common thing to hear the remark made by those unenlightened by the spiritual illumination of Truth, as Christian Science reveals it, that the day of miracles is past. It is popularly considered that the healing of the sick by purely spiritual means is entirely supernatural, the result of the suspension, or in direct violation, of divine law, the infringement of which Christ Jesus was enabled to compass for the purpose of proving his Messiahship. There is nothing whatsoever in the teachings of Jesus to sustain this theory. On the contrary, there is abundance of evidence to show that in all his works he not only did not violate spiritual law, but rather conformed to it, and thereby annulled the superstitious beliefs and limitations that were ignorantly considered to be law.
Jesus was the Way-shower. He did the will of the Father. He was continually about his Father's business bearing witness to the truth. He said that of himself he could do nothing; or to use his own words, "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth these also doeth the Son likewise." It logically follows from these words, that Jesus did not violate law, but rather conformed to law—God's law, the law of good—in all his works. And to settle for all time the mistaken belief that healing by spiritual means was confined to the period in which he lived on earth, the Master said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."
Humility plays an important part in prayer; for it is only as we realize, as Christ Jesus indicated, that of ourselves we can do nothing, that we understand what true prayer really is. The Christian can always, and with perfect confidence, pray, "Thy will be done," for God's will is always good. The full realization of the verity that we of ourselves can do nothing excludes the capacity for man to be sinful or sick, or to manifest any phase of discord; and this realization cannot but heal the sick.
