A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO a dear friend told me that she felt sorry for people who asked God to heal them, when they could just go to a doctor and get relief. She didn't understand why people had more faith in God than in medicine to help them.
God can do much more than help someone "manage" suffering
So why is it worthwhile to ask God for healing? One answer is that communication with God, whatever form it takes, leads one into relation with Spirit, and begins to spiritualize one's concept of oneself. This is important because it brings to light more of what one really is—the likeness of divinity, a truly spiritual being. An increased understanding of one's spirituality and relation to the Divine opens the way to permanent change for the better. As Mary Baker Eddy put it in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. "A scientific mental method is more sanitary than the use of drugs, and such a mental method produces permanent health." Science and Health, p. 79.
