You've probably never wondered how apples behaved before Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity. It's pretty obvious they wouldn't have occasionally fallen upward just because no one had yet explained the law governing their motion. The law always applied. The particular apple that opened Sir Isaac's eyes to this scientific rule of behavior was not illustrating a new law but conforming to a law that had always been in operation.
There is an all-embracing, timeless, spiritual law that is always operating. This law supersedes so-called material laws, and its action is evidenced in Christian healing. It's the law of God, the law of good —the law that Christ Jesus demonstrated in his three-year mission of healing recorded in the Gospels. Thinking of God's love and power as a law we can confidently rely on may strike us as odd if God's nature has been a mystery to us. Perhaps our faith in Him, though sincere, has been a kind of wavering hope, without a solid basis. Not understanding the divine character leaves us in the dark about just how capable God is of providing us with practical, healing solutions.
If we are facing a threatening or troubling situation, it is invaluable to begin to grasp the nature of God as lawful and law enforcing—as divine Principle itself; boundless Love. If God's healing love is law, it is dependable and consistent. It is the outcome of the unchanging, eternal, spiritual facts of being. The truth is that God is All and creates all to express His perfection. There is no other reality than the utter goodness of God and of His manifestation, the true, spiritual man and universe. Anything that appears to deny this reality is not an actual presence or force opposing God's allness. Spiritually viewed, any appearance of something other than the one, infinite God and His universal goodness is false, and needs to be—and can be—refuted through prayer. An inharmony in our experience may seem to be a real, solid circumstance that needs to be altered; but fundamentally, it is only an inaccurate assessment of what is truly going on, based on the untrue evidence of the material senses. In reality, there is only the divine, all-harmonious creation.
