The works of the Father, divine Love, were manifested in Jesus in his pure spiritual love, his conscious oneness with God. He said, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Healing is made manifest today as men are governed by God, good, and reflect His love. This love is liberty; it gives and rejoices; it has no boundary in thought and no limitation in matter, because it is truly spiritual and subject only to the law of divine perfection. All that men may wish for—health, holiness, joy—is to be found in right loving, for the expression of God's Hove in man is his salvation from mortality and all its errors.
In her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 (p. 9) Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The unity of God and man is not the dream of a heated brain; it is the spirit of the healing Christ, that dwelt forever in the bosom of the Father, and should abide forever in man." Christian Science practice shows abundantly that "the spirit of the healing Christ" is now and always effective; it is mankind's contact with Spirit, bringing it release from the struggles of the flesh. This healing power waits on no human process, evidence, or circumstance; it is itself the presence of good, the beholding of Father and son, God and His likeness, disposing of evil's claims to life. It admits no tomorrow of pain or trouble, no yesterday of loss. God's time is always now.
The truth understood makes men loyal, loving, and intelligently obedient to the law of Love; they become humble, strong, occupied in seeking the glory of God—conscious of true being as self-existent and incorporeal; they learn the certainty of Spirit and the power of Love with which to meet and master the claims of matter. They dwell with the spirit of Truth and bear witness to the Christ, and so gain the fullness of love and joy promised by the Master. True selfhood, radiant being, is not waiting to be healed; it is God's likeness revealed, pure in Mind, unsullied by sin, unmarred by pain, whole, in the Father's love, where none can fail or falter.
