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9/23/2013

Bow down to disease or bow before good?

If you have ever found yourself caught in a battle against illness and have struggled to find peace and healing without making much headway, this audio blog post is for you.

Christ Jesus was a master at turning water to wine. The wine they drank was not like the intoxicating drink of today. It was mixed with water, to make bitter, undrinkable water sweet and pure. This redirection from bitter to sweet, unhealthy to healthy, was a theme in all of Jesus works.

Here you will find a 4-minute audio clip that discusses the healing of a woman whom Luke described as "bowed for 18 years." Listen to insights into how Christ - the spirit of Truth that Jesus expressed - transforms minds and bodies from a bitter battle with disease to the sweet worship and praise of the infinite and ever-present Good that heals.

Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years,
and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up.
But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her,
“Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.”
And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. (Luke 13:10-13)

"We bow down to matter, and entertain finite thoughts of God like the pagan idolater.
Mortals are inclined to fear and to obey what they consider a material body
more than they do a spiritual God."
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, 214)

Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. (Psalm 150)

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9/9/2013

"What's your name?" Wake-up from disease

What do you do when it feels like a thousand symptoms of sickness are screaming for your attention all at once? If you are like the man from Gadera (see Luke 8: 26-39), outcast from a normal life due to a years-long struggle with disease, you might feel cornered by a view of yourself as a miserable wreck. Here are some clues:

When asked how you are, do you respond with a list of aches and pains?
Is your first waking thought, "I wonder what hurts this morning"?
Do you plan your day around activities that will be least likely to aggravate your symptoms?
Do you measure time by how long it has been since you last felt good?

Don't be discouraged if you see yourself in that list. It is not to late to turn your case around. Christian Science founder, Mary Baker Eddy, gave some essential instruction on healing such cases. In her seminal work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,, she explained:

The sick know nothing of the mental process by which they are depleted, and next to nothing of the metaphysical method by which they can be healed.... Assure them that they think too much about their ailments, and have already heard too much on that subject. Turn their thoughts away from their bodies to higher objects. Teach them that their being is sustained by Spirit, not by matter, and that they find health, peace, and harmony in God, divine Love... The evidence before the corporeal senses is not the Science of immortal man. (417)

Mary Baker Eddy took Christ Jesus as her authority on healing stubborn cases of disease; In the case of the Gadarene, Jesus asked the man, "What is your name?" The man replied, "My name is Legion, for we are many" (Mark 5:6-13). Shortly after, the man was well. Eddy explained, "The Scripture seems to import that Jesus caused the evil to be self-seen and so destroyed." (Science and Health, 411)

We might ask, "Self-seen? How is that?"

What is the one thing you know, when you may forget or be distracted by all else? Your name. You know your own name. It's your identifier. It's never in doubt. You always know your name.

Don't let disease, or symptoms become your identifier, your name. Don't be fooled. You know your name.

If you want to think a bit further on how "knowing your name" and "turning thought to higher objects" heals disease, you can check out these posts:

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