“He sent His Word and He healed them.” (Ps.107:20.) Reading this scripture brought to my remembrance the hymn:
“Saw ye my Savior? –
Heard ye the glad sound?
Felt ye the power of the Word?”
“Saw ye” = visual reception of the Word, i.e., with discernment (spiritual sight).
“Heard ye” = auditory reception of the Word, i.e., with understanding (spiritual hearing).
“Felt ye” = kinesthetic reception of the Word, i.e., with full consciousness (spiritual sense of touch).
In order for the Word to heal after it is sent, it must find entrance.
“The entrance of Thy word giveth light.” (Ps. 119:130.)
The Parable of the Sower speaks of several different kinds of ground that have nothing in common with the “good [receptive] ground” and which fail to give entrance to the seed “sent” to it. (Matt. 13, Luke 8.)
The Word – or logos – distinguishes between Soul and sense, that is, between reality and unreality, and separates them. (Heb. 4:12.)
“Be not conformed to this world [unreality], but be ye transformed [in Greek, be ye metamorphosed] by the renewing of your mind.” (Rom. 12:2 – this metamorphosis command is directly related to Science and Health, page 115, on the translation of mortal mind.)
KJV – “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good [reality] and evil [unreality].”
NIV – “But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.” (Heb. 5:14.)
Exercise implies exertion.
God grant that I be “conformed to a fitness to receive” – to hold – the Word requisite for translating carnal mindedness (seeing, hearing, feeling unreality) into spiritual mindedness: experiencing with all my spiritual faculties the world of reality — not in a flighty way, but as something to which I am long accustomed, the habitude of holiness. (Mis. 127, My. 18.)