Healing is a usual, not an unusual, event in Christian Science. Sometimes at the end of a testimony or a discussion of a healing the remark is made that the healing which was experienced has been permanent. This permanent healing is evidence that the inmost thoughts of the person healed have been changed. His deepest feelings have been imbued with a more spiritual outlook. He has a new awareness of his true relationship to God and has left behind old and false beliefs for a better understanding of his true identity as God's child. It is this inner transformation that makes a healing permanent.
In the thirty-first chapter of Jeremiah we read, "This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." As we understand this passage, we shall see that God's laws are already established in the real consciousness of each of us. The discovery of this eternal truth brings comfort and enlightenment to the individual, as well as healing to any inharmonious condition present in his life.
If a problem seems stubborn or recurring, perhaps it is because we have not gone beneath the surface of our thinking and earnestly sought spiritual regeneration for our most inward mental habits. An absolute must for erasing all life's discord is this inner searching for Truth, which destroys all error. The depth of our search determines our success in Christian Science. In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says (p. 40), "Remove error from thought, and it will not appear in effect."
