Testimony of Healing November 28, 2005 Issue

NOTHING IMPERFECT COULD TAKE ROOT

RICK MCMANUS

Last May, I noticed a small bump under one of my eyes. In a matter of weeks, as this growth became enlarged and discolored, I became increasingly aware of its presence. It was unsightly, embarrassing, and annoying to me because I would be aware of it every time I blinked.

Each morning as I looked at myself in the mirror, I would touch this growth and be convinced that it was solidly rooted. Thankfully, no one mentioned it, if they did notice it.

At that time I was in the process of joining a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, in La Jolla, California. As part of my preparation for church membership, I studied an article from the 1970s in the Sentinel. The writer had confronted the condition of a growth on her leg. She found she had a choice to make. Either she could believe that the growth was true about her, or she could rely on what the Bible said about her perfection as God's image and likeness (see Gen. 1:26). Only one of those two concepts was true about her. She chose to disbelieve that the growth could be a part of her spiritual, perfect being and to accept instead what the Bible explained about her as God's image. And through this dedicated prayer, she was able to heal this growth, which had been a concern for a long time. I was inspired by her example, but I wasn't sure I was up to the challenge.

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