Testimony of Healing July 13, 1998 Issue

Rower relies on God for healing and strength

Jason Greer

In college I competed for the heavyweight rowing team and, in the summers, for a club team that practiced twice a day. One day at the end of a morning rowing practice, I wrenched my back. Minutes later my coach told me that in that day's afternoon practice I would be competing for a seat in the boat. One's back is central to the rowing stroke, and a back injury can be career-ending for a rower. In the past whenever I had heard rowers complain of such injuries or plain, I had always denied in my thoughts the necessity or even the possibility of such suffering, knowing that because we are perfect, spiritual children of a perfect Spirit, God, pain or injury can have no authority over us.

By the time of the afternoon practice, all pain in my back had disappeared.

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