Testimony of Healing December 25, 1995 Issue

Several years ago I was reading the testimonies in The Christian Science Journal

Margaret A. Hull

Several years ago I was reading the testimonies in The Christian Science Journal. The first told how a woman was healed of a growth on her back. I had a similar growth, and it had been there for quite some time. Right then and there I began to pray, realizing that nothing could attach itself to me that wasn't good. God could not make unsightly growths—that I had learned from studying Christian Science all my life.

I continued praying in this way. During the next couple of weeks I would begin my days in prayer, considering this statement from Science and Health: "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration" (p. 259). I would affirm that, being spiritual, the likeness of God, I could only express pure and unblemished being.

Trusting in my understanding of God to remove all thought of a mortal body as being my true self, I held continually to these and other thoughts of God's goodness and care. I felt close to Him. I never considered that this condition would not be healed by the truths of God being held in thought. So many times the Bible says that trust in the Lord will heal our diseases. I like to think of what Jesus said of a blind man: Neither had the man sinned, nor his parents; the only truth about the situation was that God's works must be glorified (see John 9:1—3). I knew that in the same way, my own situation involved no sin or guilt, and that God's work must be manifested in me.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

Sharing Testimonies