"COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God" (Isa. 40:1). Many students of Christian Science are endeavoring to obey this injunction and are finding much joy in devoting their lives to this glorious work of healing. Occasionally, however, the Christian Scientist finds himself laboring under a false sense of responsibility concerning this work. Such a one needs to remember that the greatest of all healers said that his burden was light and that we must learn of him.
Christ Jesus also said (John 14:10), "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." On another occasion he rebuked one who called him "Good Master" and pointed out by his statement, "There is none good but one, that is, God" (Mark 10:17, 18), that divine Principle is the source of all good. Again, when he said (John 5:17), "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work," he was showing that true activity is the reflection of the divine. He knew that man is not cause but effect, that he reflects perfect Life, and that in reflecting there is no effort. Thus he showed his followers the way of freedom from false responsibility, and he promised them that their joy could not be taken away.
A student of Christian Science to whom people were turning for healing spoke to an older student about the false sense of responsibility she felt in connection with this work. He told her that these people were turning to Christian Science for help and that she as a mortal had nothing to do with it. He pointed out that it is the Christ which does the healing, and that they were really turning to the Christ for help. She later told the more experienced worker that as she thought of the Christ, defined on page 583 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error," and kept knowing that the Christ was doing the healing, she lost her false sense of responsibility and became joyous and free. And the problems of those who turned to her for healing were soon solved.
