Article May 23, 1988 Issue

On giving testimonies

Giving testimonies in church is a natural expression of gratitude. How can fear and self-consciousness, which keep a person from sharing, be overcome?

Eve Warwick

Have you ever longed to rise to your feet in a Christian Science testimony meeting and give thanks for healing, only to sit glued to your seat week after week, disgusted and sick at heart? I did, for years. It was only as I perceived that my rising had to be more spiritually based and impelled that it became physically possible.

What was this spiritual rising I needed to aim for? Well, first of all I had to jettison the notion that I was an inept mortal who wanted to praise God and Christian Science to other mortals, who might be either impressed or critical.

But if not a mortal, then what was I? The study of this Science had taught me I was what the Bible said I was: the image and likeness of God. Think of it! In quality man is Godlike, and God is supreme, omniactive Love. Could God, in His gloriously divine power, ever be frightened or immobilized? Of course not! Then, how could His likeness be? The logical conclusion must be that it could not be and therefore I could not be.

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