Conventional medical belief teaches that health is a material variable. Depending upon the state of the physical body, health is either good or bad, or somewhere in between, material observation concludes.
But Jesus Christ taught a higher view of health. He demonstrated that health is spiritual, coming from divine Mind. Rise and walk, (John 5:8) he said to the lame man. And the man got up and walked. It wasn’t a change in matter that enabled the man to walk. It was an improved state of mind, which in turn, manifested itself as an improved state of the body that enabled him to walk. The good effect derived from Spirit.
Jesus proved that health is spiritual. It comes from a divine source, from God. It is not lost to material conditions or circumstances but stands on its own. In Spirit!
The more we understand health from a spiritual point of view, the more fixed it will feel in our everyday experience.
True health is not a material variable. It’s a fixed constant, permanently built into our being, as spiritual children of God.
Thank you, Evan. The CS periodicals contain many articles on this subject. Every one of them are well worth the read. The attached July 1, 1953 CS Journal article by L. Ivimy Gwalter titled “True Health,” is an excellent example.
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/2lw8avmbl2k?s=copylink
Thank you Evan, very illuminating ideas you have shared this morning.
Thank you for sharing this article Cheryl
Dear Cheryl, thank you very very much for this absolute wonderful article about our perfect, undistructable Health by Ivimy Gwalter. I very much enjoyed listening to this metaphysically very clear article!
Thanks endlessly , dear Evan for your spiritual views about our true health, God’s quality, everlastingly bestowed on man, God’s lovely expression!♡
Thank you Evan. And thank you Cheryl for sharing a very insightful article. I love that I can listen to it too.
The following hymn came immediately to my thought –
it is so positively scientific and true, and wonderful to
ponder and accept into thought.
In Thee, O Spirit true and tender
I find my life as God’s own child;
Within Thy light of glorious splendor
I lose the earth-clouds drear and wild.
Within Thy love is safe abiding
From every thought that giveth fear;
Within Thy truth a perfect chiding,
Should I forget that Thou art near.
In Thee I have no pain or sorrow,
No anxious thought, no load of care.
Thou art the same, today, tomorrow,
Thy Love and Truth are everywhere..
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 154:1–3)
Thank you dear Maggie, this loved hymn is a cup of healing refreshing water this morning!♡
Yes, dear Uta – this hymn is what I need this morning also – and it corresponds
with Evan’s wonderful uplifting post, that health is a fixed constant, where it states
“Within Thy Love is safe abiding from every thought that giveth fear.” We can feel really safe and secure in knowing that we abide in Divine Love always – in His Spirit living
and moving.
Many thanks for this message today. My CS Teacher once advised me by phone I couldn’t faint because God, Mind, doesn’t faint. I was traveling alone, far from home at the time. With that, I realized what I seemed to be experiencing fit symptoms of dehydration, which I had only once before that. I quickly parked myself next to the complementary water and cranberry juice station Amtrak provided for passengers there in Chicago’s lovely Union Station. Problem solved..
Many, many thanks for this today Evan. What a promise from divine Mind..or maybe I should say constant actuality of being.
Thank you also to Cheryl for the article and to Maggie for bringing the verses of hymn 154 to us. Sometimes a verse from a hymn has all the inspiration needed for a particular day
Love and blessings to everyone❣️
Evan, thank you for stating, “ True health is not a material variable. It’s a fixed constant, permanently built into our being as spiritual children of God.”
Can we say it’s in our DNA ( spiritual DNA)
If we apply the CS concept to our daily challenges, physical or mental, the body or mind( mortal mind) doesn’t have time
To take over our WELL BEING, simply God is our Mind.
Thanks, and bless the SV family!
Another gem of inspiration. Thank you .. Evan and All. Our true health
is spiritually perfect in every way … a fixed constant …. nothing to waver
or change, because our health is from God, always constant in One with
our being.
I love, in the article, Cheryl, …. Thank you ….. where the little girl wanting
to play with her friend says (about contagion and catching something
erroneous from her friend) …. that why can’t her friend catch Wellness from
her. Precious! and True.
Love these daily reminders that God’s good never fluctuates. His loving care never ceases.
“Intimidated by illness? Let God’s light lead you.” by Alexis Deacon, from the September 7, 2020 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/s9ehz2smic?s=copylink
Beautiful article. Thank you, J!
Thankyou Evan, & Spirtview Family what a Wonderful View to have every morning! so Inspirational. meets our needs every day. Thankyou!
Health is an idea of God that has already and always been established. It’s here, folks! Heath is expressed in a healthy economy, healthy relationships….Health, a quality of Life, is the noun form of the word, and healthy is the adjective. Anything that comes from Divine Mind is healthy and health giving, healing. Isn’t that wonderful!