Testimony of Healing March 4, 1996 Issue

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy...

Robert A. Herlinger with contributions from Patricia A. Herlinger

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy declares, "By lifting thought above error, or disease, and contending persistently for truth, you destroy error" (p. 400). A recent healing has become a major milestone in proving the practical results of persisting actively with spiritually based thinking to "destroy error."

I woke one morning with a severe pain in my head. When I tried to get up, I became dizzy and fell back into bed unconscious. Upon regaining consciousness, however, I was so grateful for the helpful thoughts that flowed immediately into my consciousness. Some of these thoughts were: I had an opportunity here to see some new aspect of the truth about God and my relation to Him; I could be "absent from the body" without ignoring the problem when prayer kept me "present with the Lord" (II Cor. 5:8); there was nothing, no power, that could keep me from seeing my true nature and identity as the beloved child of God; I would continue praying and affirming the truth, until thought yielded and my body corresponded with the health and harmony that are normal to God's man.

I also remembered the Bible story of Jacob wrestling alone, but persisting until he prevailed and was blessed by God (see Gen. 32:24–30). I felt a prayer-supported commitment to persist as Jacob did, instead of being tempted to seek any physical treatment for these symptoms. This was to be a time of regeneration, not simply an effort to change the body.

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