Testimony of Healing March 31, 1997 Issue

"No power can withstand divine Love," writes Mary Baker Eddy...

Pauline D. Jenner

"No power can withstand divine Love," writes Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 224). I proved this truth when I was healed of back pain so severe that I could hardly walk.

I had gone on holiday with a friend. We had enjoyed about three happy days, when she suddenly started criticizing me and my religion. The commentary seemed constant. I kept my cool, however, and refused to react or justify myself, because I knew I was being provoked into an argument. I remembered Christ Jesus' counsel "Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil" (Matt. 5:37). Then she stopped speaking to me.

Now, constructive criticism can be helpful, and I wanted to listen in case I had any lessons to learn. But I honestly couldn't see where I had gone wrong. So I clung faithfully to God and tried to treat my friend kindly, and refrained from criticizing her. I was determined not to take offence, and just to love. I was not going to change my lifestyle nor compromise my religious standards to please her, as I wanted to please God always, rather than person.

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