Experience has taught me that it is helpful, especially when a problem appears entrenched, to turn completely away from error and begin living the insights and instruction that result from consecrated prayers.
I remember one time, as a new student of Christian Science, visiting a Christian Science practitioner to get some guidance. I was bothered by the fact that my ability to heal seemed so inconsistent. When healings did occur, they weren’t always permanent. At other times if something I’d worked on for a while didn’t yield, I would just try to live with it. I knew that was not in conformity with what Christian Science teaches regarding man’s complete freedom from the mortal beliefs of sin and sickness.
She pointed out to me that an improved condition is not our only goal in prayer, but that the change of thought, the correction and mental clarity that result from prayer, should also result in a change in the way we think and live. It is our expanded understanding, and consequent growth in spiritual perception, that is the real blessing. Such transformation in consciousness no longer accepts or is subject to the fears and false concepts that are the source of problems to begin with.
