Christian Science healing results from the action of Truth upon the human consciousness. It is obvious that truth cannot enter one's consciousness unless there is a willingness to receive it. These statements being true, it is evident that the God-given capacity for receiving good is our most precious possession. To arouse or develop our use of it is a fundamental need. Can mortals, unaided, realize this capacity? They cannot. Jesus said, "There is none good but one, that is, God;" and, "I can of mine own self do nothing." God alone is good, and the author of the desire for good.
In the realm of reality all initiative is of God. It is God who gives us the will for good and the power to attain good. What part, then, does the human consciousness play in realizing and enlarging this capacity for good? The answer is at hand, and is not only sensible and logical, but workable. Let one honestly strive to put into practice the highest he knows about God, and the promise, "For he that hath, to him shall be given," will be verified.
Healing in Christian Science follows the individual spiritual response to Truth. All have spiritual capacity, for God created man in His image and likeness, and that likeness has never been obliterated in anyone. To human sense, God's image and likeness, that is, the real man, is concealed by wrong thinking, by thinking which is contrary to that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus." False thoughts must be cast out to make room for Truth. Now, this casting out of error involves the forgiveness—that is, the destruction— of sin, which, in turn, is followed by "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding."
