IT is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles that "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." Christian Science teaches that the works of Christ Jesus were accomplished in obedience to spiritual law, the law of divine Love. The master Metaphysician proved that the practice of this law is spiritually conceived and manifests itself in holiness and good deeds.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 213): "God, good, is self-existent and self-expressed, though indefinable as a whole. Every step towards goodness is a departure from materiality, and is a tendency towards God, Spirit." Thus it is seen that man, God's idea, expresses the goodness of God. In accord with his divine commission, the earthly life of our Saviour was spent in doing kindly deeds. Because of his implicit obedience to divine law, Jesus without a doubt was at once the most scientific and the most compassionate of all men. His was the listening ear open to the voice of God; and this attitude enabled him to regard with compassionate tenderness and healing sympathy the sufferings and distresses of his fellow-men.
We learn in Christian Science that God equips His ideas with the wisdom, power, and ability to reflect the good, to be constantly active in being and doing good. The capacity to understand God, to be directed and guided by Him, is the heritage of spiritual man. Displacing the limited, mortal sense of things with spiritual ideas brings into consciousness the perfection of God's creation. There can be no element of inharmony in all-inclusive divine Mind. Love creates loveliness and reveals the new heaven and new earth. Reversing the mortal beliefs of sin, sickness, and impurity with the sinless, pure, and perfect ideas of immortal Mind enables one to heal the sick and sinful.
