Article February 2, 1998 Issue

God's care—you can count on it

How one man found quick healing.

By John Albert Hemphill

When Asked How To pray, Christ Jesus replied with what we call the Lord's Prayer. I think one of the most simple and beautiful lines of that prayer is the third line, which reads, "Thy kingdom come" (Matt. 6:10).

Many people of his time may have thought Jesus was making reference to a future kingdom. A spiritual sense of this line, however, given in Science and Health, presents quite an opposite view: "Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present" (p. 16). God's government is here now; His laws are in operation, and the governed are in a perfect and perpetual state of obedience. Anything claiming to control or govern man other than God has no kingdom—no laws from which to operate, no authority.

Let me illustrate what this meant to me with a healing I had when I was twelve years old. I had been looking forward to a trip to the beach for some time. The week before my family was to go, I developed a case of poison ivy that covered my whole arm. The night before we were to depart, the condition seemed to be at its worst phase. I remember clearly that I reached out to God that night for help. My answer came in the most wonderful sense of God's perfect creation and of myself as His reflection, irrespective of the evidence before my eyes. Along with this inspiration came an assurance that at that moment divine reality was in control, and that the outward picture must yield to that. I went to sleep with those comforting thoughts and woke that next morning to see that the discoloration and swelling had disappeared and a complete healing had taken place.

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