In some parts of the United States, automobile owners, in order to obtain a license to operate their cars, are periodically required by law to certify to the fact that they are covered by a certain type of liability insurance against bodily injury and property damage. This law is widely regarded as a progressive step. There is, however, a higher law which, when obeyed, completely removes the liability to be injured, to cause injury, to damage property, or to become involved in any discordant situation generally classified as an accident.

This law is the law of God, ever available and ever operative. Mrs. Eddy says in "No and Yes" (p. 30), "God's law is in three words, 'I am All;' and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim of another law." This law is revealed to us in our study of Christian Science. As a result we find that the liability to experience accident, loss, or illness exists only in mortal consciousness and that this liability can be eradicated in the measure that we put off this consciousness for true, spiritual consciousness.

When we have been healed of some physical illness, we are naturally very grateful; but the next step is to be healed of the liability to suffer from this illness and all fleshly ills. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 230), "We think that we are healed when a disease disappears, though it is liable to reappear; but we are never thoroughly healed until the liability to be ill is removed."

As a child I was troubled with an infection of the eyelids, the symptoms of which had appeared at birth. As I grew older, the physicians were unable to prescribe any form of medical treatment which gave me lasting relief. I gradually developed an attitude of resignation, for I believed that this abnormal condition would always be with me. I was so firmly convinced of this that when as a young woman I began the study of Christian Science, I had no thought of physical healing.

As I continued my study, I gained an entirely new concept of man as God's image and likeness, free from liability to inharmony, endowed with complete immunity from all untoward conditions and with harmony always intact. When the full realization came to me that the liability to the recurrence of any physical difficulty could not touch my real selfhood, I suddenly became aware that my eyelids were perfectly normal and had been so for many months. The liability having been removed, the healing was effected and has been permanent.

Man's inheritance is freedom. Claiming this inheritance, we can exercise man's God-given dominion over material laws and limitations. Paul clearly recognized this when he said (Rom. 8:2), "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."

The word "liability" implies susceptibility, generally in a detrimental sense. In the light of Christian Science we discover that man is susceptible only to good, to the tender, loving Father's outpouring of health.

In "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs. Eddy says (pp. 228, 229): "People believe in infectious and contagious diseases, and that any one is liable to have them under certain predisposing or exciting causes. This mental state prepares one to have any disease whenever there appear the circumstances which he believes produce it. If he believed as sincerely that health is catching when exposed to contact with healthy people, he would catch their state of feeling quite as surely and with better effect than he does the sick man's."

The belief that one is liable to certain diseases can and must be removed. This is not a difficult task when one realizes that all he needs to do is merely to replace this erroneous belief with the knowledge of Truth. Liability is governed by belief, and the only thing that is open to liability is mortal mind, for God, immortal Mind, endows man with perfect health, harmony, and affluence.

Fortified by this understanding and realizing fully that God provides only good for His children, we no longer need be intimidated by mortal mind's unfounded and baseless attempts to confuse or inhibit us or to lead us into the belief that we are liable to any condition except what God has provided for us—health, happiness, and security.