Many times throughout the day we have to make important choices, and through prayer and right reasoning we are able to come to good decisions. In a sense, we are always being forced to decide between two views of reality. One view accepts the theory that God has created both good and evil and that we have no choice but to wait for some future salvation. The other view reveals what our Master, Christ Jesus, was showing us: that God, good, is the only real creator, evident here and now, and that evil has no genuine cause.
The accounts of Jesus' healing ministry in the Gospels make it clear that good is not an "option," tossed around in a realm of chance, but is permanently established by divine Spirit as the true substance of being. When Jesus was confronted with difficult situations, he was never indecisive. He proved with certainty man's inseparable relationship to his heavenly Father by meeting the needs of those who came to him for healing. His works showed that what seemed to human sense to be a physical condition in need of cure had a mental basis; that it represented a misconception of God and man.
Jesus corrected false beliefs about God and His creation through the transforming power of Christ, the true idea of God, man's divine Principle, dispelling fear, sorrow, regret, hatred, superstition, and the physical ills they produce. Mrs. Eddy writes of Jesus, "He demanded a change of consciousness and evidence, and effected this change through the higher laws of God." Unity of Good, p. 11. Understanding that these divine laws forever govern man in harmony opened the way for the healing touch of Christ to reveal wholeness and spiritual perfection as man's natural state of being. Jesus demonstrated for all people, and for all time, that Life is Spirit and that matter is not truly substantial. His deep love for God and man impelled him to liberate his fellowman from whatever did not accord with perfect, spiritual existence. Disease and suffering were extinguished with Christly authority, allowing people to experience their inherent spiritual freedom.
