An earnest, active Christian healer was once asked what, in his view, was the primary obstacle to healing. He replied without pause, "Smallness."
I found that answer unexpected and wondered if it might be as deep as it was brief. So I tried considering it in relation to Christ Jesus' experience. How often had the Master bumped up against small-mindedness in others? Jealousy, pettiness, territoriality? It was easy to spot those strains of thought crowding around as if to smother his healing work. They would never willingly concede even to the possibility that infinite Spirit—God—is the only real power. Yet this truth was more than possibility. Spirit's all-power was foundational fact to Jesus' healing. And it is to ours. Breaking the stranglehold of finite thinking breathes life into Christian practice today—as it did then. The realness of Spirit, and of man as spiritual, is central to every case of Christian healing.
Let's face it. The self-absorbed human mind is simply not equipped to take in the grandeur of God, the transcendence and immanence of Spirit. Looking through binoculars that turn out to have pictures for lenses might surprise us. But they would have to be laid aside before we could take in the real scene. The human mind's view of creation has to be laid aside, in some degree, before we can really glimpse the majesty and supremacy of Spirit, God.
