When anyone seeks healing, what is he basically looking for? Freedom from pain, lack, fear? Perhaps. But isn't there a more fundamental motivation than seeking physical betterment? Doesn't mankind struggle for dominion—dominion over disease, over the physical body, over thoughts, emotions, anxieties, faults, and failings? In short, dominion over all?
The Bible reveals that man has such dominion. It declares, "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over ... all the earth."Gen. 1:26; The Bible shows, and Christian Science demonstrates, that God created His man to know and rejoice in the evidence of His goodness and love. Christ Jesus called this consciousness of harmonious being the kingdom of heaven.
Is there a key to the realization and demonstration of man's God-given dominion, a way to claim this spiritual birthright? Jesus gave a simple condition. When asked by his disciples who would be greatest in the kingdom of heaven, he set a little child before them and said, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."Matt. 18:3, 4;
