Article July 25, 1994 Issue

Instantly!

Sue Rohde

When I was younger I became quite ill with what appeared to be flu symptoms. For days I was simply miserable, spending most of my time in bed. I read only spasmodically from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and although I took no medication, I also wasn't really accepting the truth of what I had been reading. In fact, I didn't even expect to feel better until one day, when I was feeling particularly wretched, suddenly a small ray of light penetrated my thinking and I began to realize that self-pity was dominating me. I had just been lolling around in misery, accepting what I had heard of flu symptoms to be true.

With this awakening I immediately reversed this mistaken self-diagnosis and replaced it with the truth of my real, spiritual being. I realized that if I had refuted this claim of flu instantly, I could have saved myself days of suffering! As I prayed, I also had a fuller realization of my completeness as God's perfect reflection—a realization that I included all of God's qualities as His image and likeness. In a matter of hours, I was up and active with no vestige of illness.

How often we forget, or simply fail, to reject instantly any false suggestion regarding God's idea, man. By denying such suggestions immediately, we give them no place to grow, no opportunity to get a foothold in thought. But then we need also to replace the wrong thought with the spiritual facts of existence, with the truth that God created man whole, immortal, and pure.

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