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A quick word from god7/15/2023 It’s the victorious Christian life – the Great Physician, Jesus, using His scalpel to free us of the disease and poison of sin. ![]() That Great Physician is Jesus, and He can separate the inner parts of the body to see where there is a problem, see where there is disease, and in the process, is able to discern what’s really going on inside. God’s Word is telling us that Scripture is like a scalpel in the hands of a great physician. It’s also an offensive weapon in spiritual warfare. It was His offensive weapon in battling the evil one and rejecting those temptations that were being thrown at Him in the wilderness. Do you know the first weapon Jesus used when He was tempted by the devil in the wilderness? It was the written Word of God. There is great power within the living Word of God to point us to the ultimate Word of God, Jesus Christ.Īnd finally, the Word of God is sharper than any “two-edged sword.” Interesting choice of words, and there is a double meaning. It also says here that the Word of God is “active.” That means powerful! There is no book like it. So when the Bible says the Word of God is quick, it means it is living. It was a great reassurance because she knew her baby was alive. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures illuminates its meaning so that we may go to its limitless riches with confidence in the Word and find guidance, inspiration, wisdom, healing-and freedom of movement.“The word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword.” – Hebrews 4:12Ĭontinuing with the same Scripture reference that we used yesterday, I love what the King James Bible says about the word “living.” It says the Word of God is “quick.” For centuries, when a woman was pregnant, the quickening was the first time the woman felt her baby move within her. The Bible is the greatest treasure the world has. In a few days it was perfectly normal and has remained so. And as I continued to reason prayerfully, the shoulder became increasingly free. This was indeed Christ bringing healing and comfort. That verse from Hebrews came to thought, comforting me and assuring me that God's complete control over my being reached even to ``the joints and marrow.'' The immobility and pain began to disappear right then. It was my right as a perfect, complete, and wholly spiritual child of God to express unimpaired movement. What was the truth needed here? What the joints in my arm appeared to be doing or, in this case, not doing was not the issue. And his healing power illustrated the effects of living our lives in the light of God's Word.īecause I knew that this condition could be healed by prayer, I listened for God's direction. His God-controlled, God-centered, God-inspired thought replaced limited, mortal belief with the light of the Word. The word of life is both the good news of the gospel of what God has done for sinners in Jesus Christ as well as the word of revelation found in Scripture. Jesus understood the divine reality so clearly that he could see through matter's false claim to be real and causative and could demonstrate by healing that the Word of God is the activity of ever-present good controlling every aspect of existence. Eddy, the Founder of the Christian Science Church, says of Jesus in Science and Health: ``Understanding the nothingness of material things, he spoke of flesh and Spirit as the two opposites,-as error and Truth, not contributing in any way to each other's happiness and existence'' (p. They not only heal but have set lives in radical new directions in his time and ever since. How could a shoulder joint remain painfully immobilized in the face of the quickening and invigorating power of God, divine Spirit? Christ Jesus said, John's Gospel records, ``It is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life'' (6:63). I could see that God's Word could reach every aspect of my being, and there was nothing in me that could resist His power. It tells us: ``The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart'' (4:12). The Bible has a passage in Hebrews that speaks of the vitality- the ``aliveness''-and powerful effectiveness of God's Word. Because of Mary Baker Eddy's discovery, over a century ago, that there was a scientific law behind Jesus' healings, and because the understanding of that law has been made available to us all in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, I was confident that help was literally within reach. The inconvenience, to say nothing of the discomfort, was so great I saw I needed something effective to bring immediate relief. SEVERAL months ago I woke one morning unable to move my arm at the shoulder without a great deal of pain.
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