In the Bible are recorded many instances of healing by the prophets and by Christ Jesus and his followers. Many times the one healed, together with those recognizing the healing, glorified God. We find more than once the simple and inspirational statement that the people glorified God after Jesus had done some wonderful work.
Jesus performed his healing mission so perfectly that he glorified the Father and not personal sense. How well his disciples learned and followed the lesson of their Master in their healing work. In Acts we read that Peter and John, after healing the lame man, asked the people (3:12, 13), "Why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?" How important it is to make certain that we too glorify God and not self. After any healing we should remember Mary Baker Eddy's statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which appears under the marginal heading "Forgetfulness of self" (p. 262), "Christian Science takes naught from the perfection of God, but it ascribes to Him the entire glory."
Again in the Bible we are told (I Cor. 6:20), "Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." How revealing to recognize that we are "bought with a price"—something is exchanged. Personal sense, human concepts, material hypotheses, beliefs of personal ability, and all the vagaries of mortal mind, which can never result in healing and regeneration, must be given up. In place of accepting the wrong standpoint of personal ability, we must arrive at an unerring recognition of God's power. The resplendent light which then permeates consciousness brings assurance of man's true spiritual being, his perfection as the idea or child of God, his constant ability to appreciate and recognize the infinite source of his ability and being.
