"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine...

Peace C. Ugboaja

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" (Prov. 3:5, 6). This special passage from the Bible has helped me in a lot of situations.

Since childhood, I have been worshiping with my parents and sibling in a nearby Christian Science church, and I attended the Christian Science Sunday School, where I have learned profound things about God and His creation. I have learned that God is All-in-all; that God, Mind, controls everything He has made and cares for me and all mankind. I also learned that God is Principle, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, substance, and intelligence.

Since then, I have had countless blessings and healings through the study and understanding of Christian Science. I would like to share a healing that took place in March 1995. One morning I woke up with a swelling in the upper part of my mouth coupled with severe pain. Immediately, I remembered learning how to pray in the Sunday School and declared to myself one of the truths in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy: "The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness" (p. 151). Thinking deeper about this passage, I reasoned that divine Mind's maintenance of me, His child, cannot include pain, which is an illusion.

After studying my Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly, I kept to the truth of this statement found in Science and Health: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual" (p. 468).

I felt the effect of my prayer. The following day, I was completely healed.

The next day the pain was more severe than before, and I couldn't swallow food easily, but I continued with my prayer, knowing as I have learned in Christian Science, "Nothing can interfere with the harmony of being nor end the existence of man in Science" (p. 427). Later in the day I felt the effect of my prayer as the swollen part had drained. The following day, I was completely healed.

I am deeply grateful to God for this wonderful healing and the discovery of Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy. I thank God also for my parents, who led me into this marvelous teaching and for my joy of membership in The Mother Church.

Peace C. Ugboaja
Obigbo, Rivers State, Nigeria

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