I was cleaning a badly burned frying pan. After twenty minutes of hard work with scouring powder and steel wool, little improvement was noticeable. But I resolved to keep at it a bit each day. After a couple of weeks the pan looked shiny-bright. Persistent action had erased all the blackening.
This experience was very helpful. It served as an encouraging reminder. When a trouble we're facing seems unyielding, we can persist in prayer. Daily we can utilize what we might call the erasing, healing power of the Christ, the true idea of God. This divine power brings reality—the truth of being—to light. It heals, for it reveals the purity and nobility of our genuine, spiritual nature. It illumines our God-given soundness and healthfulness. And it does this right where a darkened sense—a mistaken sense—of life as physical and subject to harm seems to be. This enlightening, cleansing power works in us as we understand the allness of God and claim, feel, and know His all-power.
We can rejoice that through the Christ we can and do understand God's all-loving, all-encompassing, irresistible nature. And through Christian Science, the Science of Christ, we learn how to reflect divine power in order to erase error from thought. Then we find the spiritual verity, the shiny-bright reality, that is now, and always has been, present. We learn that by removing error from thought, we remove its effects from our body or any phase of our experience.
