Earnest students of Christian Science often have instantaneous healings as they strive to put into practice what they learn of Truth. If healing is not immediate, then the student knows that there is some lesson he needs to learn. Sometimes sin and false traits of character have to be uncovered and destroyed. Often the lesson to be learned is that material sense cannot tell us the truth, for it sees matter and evil as real; whereas spiritual sense alone sees that all is good and that only Spirit and its ideas are real.
Christ Jesus tells us to seek the kingdom of heaven first and then all necessary things will be added. Through the study and application of Christian Science we must seek and cultivate spiritual sense. Then we shall realize that God has already given us the kingdom of heaven, has given us all good, including health, abundance, peace.
Jesus' healing of the blind man, recorded in the ninth chapter of John, shows that the Master ever turned away from the testimony of material sense to the spiritual facts. We read that when the disciples asked him, "Who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replied, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
