Jesus lived his teachings. He said, "I am among you as he that serveth." Luke 22:27 He taught and demonstrated the Christ with human compassion by healing the sick and lifting the burden of sin from the penitent.
His faithful follower, Mrs. Eddy, in her "Advice to Students" tells how to follow this healing ministry of the Christ. She says, "Let us serve instead of rule, knock instead of push at the door of human hearts, and allow to each and every one the same rights and privileges that we claim for ourselves." And she adds, "If ever I wear out from serving students, it shall be in the effort to help them to obey the Ten Commandments and imbibe the spirit of Christ's Beatitudes." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 303 She understood, trusted, and patiently taught and demonstrated the awakening and healing power the Christ brings to human consciousness. She didn't force growth in others. She nursed individual spiritual unfoldment. She nourished spiritual vision.
Christ Jesus did not lose his vision of spiritual perfection. He understood and persistently claimed his own true nature as the Son of God. This Christly consciousness of God's loving fatherhood was so dominant in his thinking that he unhesitatingly rejected fear, lack, suffering, or any form of evil as illegitimate and unreal. He saw and taught others their sonship with God. As the redeeming nature of the Christ dawned on his followers, it so illumined human thought that true spiritual identity was expressed and healing took place. In serving the Christ in himself he spiritually served and healed others, and so may each of us.
