When we seek physical healing in Christian Science, we look to God. We pray to be governed by Him, by divine Mind. This statement of St. Paul's is central to Christian healing: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Phil. 2:5 Jesus sought to do God's will. He healed because he was governed by the divine Mind. This Mind is the healer. Healing comes as divine Mind, through the action of Christ, Truth, destroys the human belief in disease, sin, or death.
Christian healing is the outcome of yielding to divine Mind's government of our thoughts, motives, and actions. It glorifies God, not matter, material well-being, or the human mind. It honors God, Spirit, in the expression of health, harmony, and holiness, for these are qualities of Spirit. True Christian practice is spiritual action. It manifests a love for God and man, an understanding of Truth, and proper self-government under the government of God. Through such practice the power of God, good, obliterates the fraudulent action of any form of evil.
We should not be surprised at opposition to the practice of purely spiritual healing. After all, Paul wrote, "The carnal mind is enmity against God." Rom. 8:7 The carnal, mortal mind is opposed to divine Mind, for it is a pretender to be mind in matter, a mind apart from God. Mortal mind places the foundation of healing, not on the rock of Christ, Truth, but on the shifting sands of matter and material sense. True Christian practice is built on an understanding of substance as Spirit. Malpractice is built on the false sense of substance as matter. True practice bears witness to the healing, regenerating action of immortal Mind upon human thought. It seeks and follows God's will. Malpractice is self-asserting mortal will. The false practice of mortal mind dishonors God, denies His power, and ignorantly attributes power to matter.
