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Let us consider a second area in the
healing picture.The first step was from the physical to the mental, to the
discovery that as we are consciously plugged in to the Mind that is God, to the
law of good, we are actually partaking of that divine power. We learn that we
are not merely taking strong human thought about our affairs or experiencing
simply an improved mental state. The Bible is full of assurances about the
absolute reality of God as the good, the power for good, and about the
impotence of evil. Evil seems to be terribly real but in fact does not have
either a source or a principle behind it, exactly as darkness has no source or
power behind it. 'God is light, and in him is no darkness at all" (I John 1:5).
I saw a woman come out of an awful dark state of mental breakdown and when she
was out and clear, I asked her what it was that had helped her so much. She
said, 'I suddenly saw that there isn't enough darkness in all the world to put
out the light of one little candle' - on the basis that light has a source and
darkness does not have a source.
We are into the second warp thread of
seeing the spiritual nature of good and health and harmony and blessedness
because they have a divine source, an authority behind them, whereas illness
and evil, distress and discord do not have a divine source; indeed they do not
have anything behind them except ignorance. So no wonder the Bible says that we
must "put off... the old man, which is corrupt...and be renewed in the spirit
of your mind; and .. . put on the new man, which after God is created in
righteousness" (Eph 4:22). We now need to make a conscious choice between the
old man, which is what we are not, and the new man, which is what we actually
are. We are all aware of the old Adam in us: self-condemnation, self-love,
selfjustification, self-distrust, even self-hate sometimes. But we are free
agents to turn away from that and to say, No, the Bible tells me that God made
man in His own image and likeness, and I am free to choose that ideal as my
real substance, my real nature. I begin to understand that the spiritual is
real and this is the true me.
The word spirit is derived from spirare,
to breathe - "there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty
giveth them understanding" (Job 32:8). The mortal concept is a false conception
of my true being and my true worth. I often find with breath complaints that
all that is needed is for that individual to take a deep-drawn breath, fresh
from God, letting this blow away the cobwebs of all the shallowness and
littleness of our conventional thinking, and instead just to love to let the
spirit of God, "the inspiration of the Almighty," come flooding in.
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