by Keith Wommack
I’m a Christian Science practitioner and I wanted to know just what Christ was doing in my healing practice. I basically knew the distinction between Jesus and Christ. I’d been learning that Christ is the real man, the real identity of every one of us; our unbreakable relation to God; our oneness with God.
I was discovering that Christ is God’s divine message always present in consciousness. It reverses whatever is wrong in human experience and eventually replaces so-called human life itself with our true Life which is divine. I’d found out that Jesus was the individual, who allowed Christ to complete this transformation, giving a full example for you, me, and everyone. It was not the person of Jesus, but the Christ, that was and is the healer of disease and sin. But I wanted to know more. Since I wanted to know just what Christ was doing in my healing practice, I sat down and asked. I asked God. What I heard, I wrote down. Wow!
- It is Christ that enables you to feel at peace when fear or terror claims to be in control.
- It is the Christ in action when you feel relaxed and experience a wave of harmony and goodness in the middle of an emergency.
- It is the Christ-power that sets your prayers on fire with spiritual confidence.
- It is the Christ-power that animates your dynamic assurance in the inevitability of complete healing.
- It was the authority of Christ that enabled Jesus never to give Lazarus a choice. Lazarus didn’t have a choice to die.
- It is the Christ that never gives you a choice, either.
- It is Christ that brings finality to your prayers and healing work.
- It is the Christ-power that motivates your correcting words and authoritative tone as you speak to those needing moral direction.
- It is the tender Christ that reveals to you the realness of your spiritual being right where matter would describe you.
- It is the Christ-presence that heals sorrow and fills the void when a loved one is no longer with you—proving life and love never to be absent.
- It is the melody of Christ that makes your life glorify the divine Life, God, this moment and the next.
- It is Christ that attracts and influences you to do and be profoundly good.
- It is Christ that enables everyone who meets you to be healthier, holier, and happier for having met you.
- It is the loving Christ that offers you the perfect opportunity when nothing else is in sight.
- It is Christ that sweetly reveals your natural ability when life insists, “You could never.”
- It is Christ that floods thought with your majesty and worth when before “not good enough” followed every breath.
- It is Christ that satisfies you and proves to you that the devil is never an angel.
- It is Christ that leads you to the exact spot demonstrating to you that nothing was ever lost in God, divine Mind.
- It is Christ that restores to you everything the carnal mind claims to have taken away.
- It is the Christ that impels us to love what God sees in another.
- It is the activity of Christ that is proving to you that all that exists is perfect God and perfect man.
I love this list. I’m going to print it out. Thanks.
To Lisa,
I’m glad you love the list. I do too.
I’m sure Christ is animating your prayers and smiles!
WOW
Wow! is right! I think all of our Sunday School ought to have this list printed out and posted!
Thanks so much! This list is just what I needed. We’re packing up and moving away from home this summer. I need to see the Christ in all this activity and upheaval- this list is a great help!
Great Sunday School idea - maybe people there could make their own list of what the Christ is doing for them, like: welcoming and making comfortable every newcomer and familiar attendee; gently leading all the Sunday School officers, teachers and pupils together; enriching and warming the way each person interacts with each other; joyfully revealing itself through simple, practical, healing ideas and experiences; etc…
To Pam & Susie
It would be great to start a list in the Sunday School!
Thanks.
Thanks Keith. I am so happy I met you on the plane from Boston to Houston. I will print this list out and carry it with me wherever I go.
Hi Keith! Great list! I’m not sure I understand how Lazarus didn’t have a choice though, could you explain this more? Wouldn’t Lazarus have to at least accept or be willing to be awoken?
Just as a flower naturally responds to the warmth and brightness of the sun, the warmth and brightness of the Christ-light expressed by Jesus naturally had Lazarus moving out of the darkness and toward the light.
Our innate goodness, the Christ within us, impels us to follow the Christ-love that yearns for our freedom as well.
To Maryam
What a wonderful moment it is when we first learn of the Science of Christ, Christian Science — even when it’s on a long plane ride!
Keep loving how God has made you to be.
hi keith, great posting..how can I feel the christ when preparing for a new job, interviews and all those task associated to that..thanks
To Isabel,
It is the Christ that motivates your wise decisions moving you past the choices that waste your energy and time. It is Christ’s tone and texture that communicates God’s authority and compassion through your voice and movements. It is the Christ that opens doors, removes barriers, and reveals a divine surprise that satisfies your heart.
Keith, that’s so great… and my question would very similar to Isabel, how can we feel the Christ in our life…
To Benoit,
We feel the Christ in our life as we stop as Moses did to ponder why the bush was not burnt. In other words, we feel the Christ when we are not so absorbed in the material sense of things. The Christ is always here within us. We just get caught up in the noise and frenzy of the world and do not even notice.
When I feel inspired by a song or sunset the active mental sensation I enjoy is the Christ. When I rejoice because of acts of kindness, accomplishment, and strength, I’ve felt the Christ.
Christ is God’s activity, so to speak. God is the noun. Christ, we could say, is the verb of God. Also, we might say, God is the doer, Christ is the doing, and man is the done.
Christ has a dual role. It has both a descriptive role and acts as a leaven or catalyst.
Christ is the catalyst aspect of Truth that eternally forces itself to have an effect, to raise itself up in action. Without the Christ in Truth, Truth would be without expression. Therefore, Truth would be inactive and man, Truth’s expression, would not exist.
Christ is the catalyst aspect of Truth reflected by man that forever keeps man developing, giving him his reason for existing.
Christ is the divine leaven of God, the substance or quality of Truth, which is an active ingredient that causes a rising, a lightening, or an enlivening in the thought of those receptive to Truth.
Science and Health states, “Christ presents the indestructible man…” (S&H 316:20-21) This shows Christ in its descriptive aspect of Truth. Christ reveals our oneness with God. With every healing, Jesus was describing our nature. He showed man to be whole, not withered or ill; alive, not dying or dead; innocent and pure, not sinful;, immortal, not mortal.
I love this:
Christ is God’s activity, so to speak. God is the noun. Christ, we could say, is the verb of God. Also, we might say, God is the doer, Christ is the doing, and man is the done.
To Amy,
I love it too.
What I’ve found helpful as well is to remember that evil is not a noun or verb. It is not a person, place, or thing. It cannot actively do anything. It is nothing! All the being and doing is God, Christ, and man.
hi keith, how can the christ guide us to right and fullfilling relationships?
To Mary,
God knows what makes you happy and is best for you. His active love is the Christ, the shepherd, which leads, feeds, guards, and loves you. Christ leads you to the friends that will be a blessing. What Christ gives will fulfill you.
Thank you Keith - I find this very helpful.
Sincerely appreciated.
You have had great feedback and you enlightened further. Many transitions going on. Working towards CS. Not there yet! But, will get there!
Cheers
Thanks Keith. I appreciate the list as I have been thinking about the Christ and how it’s expressed.
To Blue Eyes,
Glad you’re finding the blog helpful.
Christ reveals the effortless, unruffled nature of living as God’s idea right where the struggle to act like one seems so real.
Moderator, did you get my last reply? It was:
To Blue Eyes,
Glad you’re finding the blog helpful.
Christ reveals the effortless, unruffled nature of living as God’s idea right where the struggle to act like one seems so real.
Amazing list. Thank you for illumining us with such wonderful ideas.
**Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way** You have helpes my inspiration and illumination
Thanks, Keith - just got today - didn’t see it listed when I peeked in on the 13th & 14th. Yes, you sure got that right about struggle - Very good …
Pondering …
Yes … listening & expecting … Christ’s revealing …
Sincerely,
Thanks Keith, that’s wonderful. As I was thinking about it myself, I received this angel-thought (which I guess is trivial but until I got it it was not for me…). Mrs Eddy always speaks from Truth AND Love. They are always together (OK as part of the trinity anyway). Now what you said above is what I received. The Truth is always here, it is always active, it is always working. And it is the Love which makes the way for Truth free. It is Love which enables us to feel that Truth. Thus if we express Love, we will feel Thruth, the Christ. It is like we feel the sun and warmth, if we open the shutter. It is not really useful to ask why we don’t feel the sun as long as the shutter is closed…
Thanks helping me getting that.
Thanks Benoit,
I really love how you expressed that …