Healthy in body and Spirit

November 1, 2016 | 11 comments

“Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit.”

~ 3 John 1:2, NLT

I love this verse because it brings out the practice of Christian Science. Christian Science is not just about consoling the soul and making the best of hard times. It’s about learning the realities of Spirit and living them out.

To be “strong in Spirit,” is to know that one is well in Spirit. And to know that one is well in Spirit precludes believing one is sick in the body. You can’t believe in both at the same time.

To understand that one is “well in Spirit,” keeps the body well too, for what one knows to be true in Spirit governs the body and keeps it well.

11 thoughts on “Healthy in body and Spirit”

  1. I love this verse too! And I love these thoughtful and inspiring daily gifts! Thank you Evan, and all who comment! Blessings to you!

  2. Thank you for the inspiring messages we get on SpiritView, Evan.
    They uplift my thought and that brings progress for me, and I’m sure for all who tap into this wellspring.

  3. This is beautiful. I really like particularly the last line, “to understand that one is well in Spirit, keeps the body well too”. This is such an important concept that Christian Science teaches, but so fundamental. Thank you for sharing this!

  4. Thank you, Evan! Great Photo…..esp. right after Halloween here in the U.S. (The little girl looks like she’s still in costume!) I love that it’s a spiritual law of God, Mind, that what we think about deeply has to have an effect on our experience and on our physical body. So grateful for Science and Health which expounds deeply on this point and has had a healing effect on so many who have read the book! Happy November!

  5. While checking out after shopping today, a clerk, helping me to be alert that my “plastic bag” had small holes in it, continued to share with me that she struggled with customers, she was less than patient and kind with them, and that she wanted relief. At that moment, after observing her serve a contentious customer in line in front of me, I reassured the clerk, that, Yes, it’s time to pray, and I will pray for healing, peace and justice and love. She was immediately relieved, asking me to pray specifically for her, for her peace, and love for all who she met in her line. As I left the store, it came to begin with the Lord’s Prayer, and afterwards continue with other inspiration as it came to me. Thank you Evan and all the above for providing inspiration RIGHT NOW, and add more to this prayer for all mankind. I love to see the light in each person’s reflection of the one God.

  6. Thanks for the beautiful thoughts! Recently a sentence on p. 420 of our textbook really hit home for me. In the paragraph entitled “Proper stimulus” Mrs. Eddy writes, “Tell the sick that they can meet disease fearlessly, if they only realize that divine Love gives them all power over every physical action and condition.” That’s what divine Loves gives each of one of us! Wow!

  7. Thank you dear Evan, reminding us to be strong in Spirit. When I started to learn CS nursing in England the superviser said to me: you must be strong. But later a dear CS friend told me: O yes, but that means “spiritual strength”. Oh, that comforted me that the spiritual version is ment. That also means, God gives us all the strength we need. Am grateful to learn that. And thank you also for all the comments today!

  8. If we know and understand that:
    God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony and boundless bliss,
    and that we live, move and have our being in God (Spirit), then we know for certain that good health is our constant companion. We are healthy in body and Spirit.
    Evan, its such an inspiring message and an equally encouraging and lovely picture too. Great, God bless.

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