Do you value your faith in God? Do you consciously cherish it, deeply and daily?
A Christian Scientist is eager to keep his faith in God strong and pure, for he understands that faith has an important role in the work of spiritual healing. Faith is by no means the whole of healing as practiced in Christian Science, but it is an essential element to spiritual healing. If the carnal mind could undermine our faith, it would hinder and eventually halt the healing work of Christian Science. How vital, then, for the Christian Scientist to recognize the role faith has in healing and to defend his faith in God from whatever would defeat and destroy it!
There's a distinct and vast difference between Christian Science healing and mere faith cure. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "Christian Science is not a remedy of faith alone, but combines faith with understanding, through which we may touch the hem of His garment; and know that omnipotence has all power." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 97. Christian Science healing, then, includes having faith in God, as well as understanding in some degree that He and His creation, including spiritual man created in His likeness, are perfect. It involves yielding one's thought and life to the reforming influence of His Christ, His spiritual idea of manhood. Science thoroughly accepts the Christian demand for repentance and regeneration in bringing to light our true, Godlike nature as man, a demand that Christ Jesus brought out in his healing practice.
