Article November 23, 1992 Issue

Finding healing in the Bible

The Christian Science Monitor

I was wakened in the middle of the night by a sudden and severe pain. The pain seemed overwhelming. I reached out to God for help in prayer, remembering the words from a Bible verse in Psalms I'd read that day: "The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly."

I had thought earlier that day of God as "a sun," which to me meant that God is Love, and that His shining love embraces all His children. Also I had considered how the light that is associated with the sun is emblematic of the inspiration and understanding of God, displacing the ignorance of darkened thought.

These thoughts of God as a sun were very comforting. But now I also began to think of God as a shield. A shield protects from harm or injury; it keeps one safe. I saw that God is man's protection from harm. He is ever present and He is good. Man, the spiritual image and likeness of God, is always protected and maintained by God, his Father-Mother. This insight into the nature of God and His love for His child, man, was a healing one, and I was soon free from discomfort. There was no return of the pain.

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