On a regular basis, I feel the need to refresh my heart with and strengthen my conviction of God’s transforming and healing love. I do this by turning specifically to biblical reports illustrating God’s love, particularly the accounts of Christ Jesus’ healing ministry. While doing this recently, I noticed how consistently aware he was of the all-embracing, eternal love of God, his Father-Mother, and that this love extends equally to all of God’s children—in other words, to all people.
I also noticed that Christ Jesus’ love for God and his fellow man is echoed in his appealing to God and healing acts documented in the New Testament. His thoughts didn’t include any intellectually calculated procedures, human analysis, or even a trace of ambition to steer someone in a direction of his choosing. Nor was that necessary, because he placed himself entirely in the service of the transformative and guiding Love which is God.
Jesus once said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these” (John 5:19, 20).
