Jesus didn't blame...he healed...you can too

It is interesting that when Jesus healed the woman of the infirmity of eighteen years he didn’t ask her… “Think back to all of your sins and pick out one or more that caused this problem for you.”  He just loved the real her, as she was—a child idea of God, and blessed her with the healing she so wanted from His Christ light of Love, God. 1

When Jesus healed the man with the withered hand he didn’t look at him as a handicapped individual. He said to him… “stretch out thine hand.”  He didn’t see him as permanently handicapped he saw him as whole, complete, and free. 2
When the woman that had been caught in “the very act” of adultery and was brought to him presumably to be stoned, he revealed that each and everyone had sins of their own to deal with and each one was “convicted by their own conscience” and left her standing there with him alone.  “He said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord.  And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” 3  

When Jesus healed the blind man, the one who the disciples wanted to find a fault and blame either by the blind or his parents.  They asked him, “saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.”4

It is interesting that a man who was so pure and good, one who could heal through an understanding of God as the perfect Creator of Life and His creation being perfect as Himself, never looked to blame or fault in this healing process.  What he said was direct, “Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” 3

Another time when one who was healed at the pool of Bethesda “where there lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water…And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.  When Jesus saw him lie, and knew he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?”  The man brought out his litany of excuses (which could be considered major sinning by complaining in front of Jesus) yet Jesus still said “unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk…afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” 5

Mary Baker Eddy in her main work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures explains, “We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal.  But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.”6

Jesus discerned sin as punishable, but man as the beloved perfect idea of God, as worthy of freedom from sin, disease and death.  He healed all problems, raised the dead, and gave to the poor the true explanation and demonstration of the Gospel.  He healed so many because of his understanding of Love, God, and its perfect intent for man to be fetterless and free.

“Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself spiritual. Soul, being Spirit, is seen in nothing imperfect nor material.”7

When we see God’s man as he is, perfect, precious, free, we too can heal as Jesus’ disciples were taught.  So many have demonstrated this power to heal through the understanding of Christian Science, you can learn this Science too.

Gentle Hugs

1 Luke 13: 11, 12  

2 Mark 3: 5
3 John 8:1-11
4 John 9: 2,3
5 John 5:1-14
6 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures pg 497 beginning on line 9 (497:9)
7 ibid. 476:32-8