Reconciled! What does it mean? Does one utter the word with a sigh and feel that there will follow a period of dull adjusting and conforming? This negative sense may linger in consciousness because of some experience in which one has attempted to become reconciled to something less than God. The thought of becoming reconciled to God has a very different ring. It is joyous, stimulating, active, and progressive.
An individual awakened to the comfort and healing power of divine Science learns truly to be reconciled to God. This leads him into rich fields of usefulness and the unfoldment of good. Many of those healed by the Master, Christ Jesus, left all and followed Jesus in the way, taking some active part in his ministry. Those who progress most rapidly in Christian Science do much the same thing. In gratitude for their blessings they hasten to put off the old ways and modes of mortal thought and find their thinking conforming ever more closely to the inspiration of the Christ-idea.
It is a logical propulsion which induces many who have been healed through Christian Science to join a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and also The Mother Church. Their motive is to find orderly channels through which to share their new-found joy with others who may be seeking release and healing. Joining the church is a step in one's becoming reconciled to God, reconciled because one has tasted of God's great love and found it altogether good.
