My wrist moves freely

Datu Mulyono

First published in the online Indonesian Herald of Christian Science

Some time ago, one of my wrists suddenly became red and swollen. It hurt every time I moved it. A colleague, who was not a student of Christian Science, told me that it was because the lubricating fluid in my wrist had become dry, which he said often happens as we grow older.

This friend, who was much younger than I, added that she had had the same problem with her knees. I remembered that a few months before, she had been wearing spandex on her knees and had been walking with a cane. She told me she got her medication from the United States through a relative who lived there because it was less expensive than in Jakarta.

Another friend advised me to use raisins and dry gin to overcome my problem. I thanked both friends for their concern, but realized that the best therapeutic means for me is Christian Science.

When studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson for that week, I read about a woman who had suffered with an issue of blood for 12 years. She had consulted many physicians and spent all that she had to overcome it, but she was not healed. When she heard of Jesus, she came in the crowd behind him, touched his garment, and was healed. Jesus then said to the woman: “Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague” (see Mark 5:25–34). To me the key to the healing experienced by the woman was “faith.” She had faith that just by touching Christ Jesus she could be healed.

In the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes: “The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation” (p. xi).

I pondered that statement and the following definition from the same textbook: “Oil. Consecration; charity; gentleness; prayer; heavenly inspiration” (p. 592). It became clear to me that the “oil” that makes all my activities go smoothly is really these spiritual qualities that can never dry up.

I spent one whole day thinking about these ideas, trying to really absorb their meaning. The next morning, I was overjoyed when I noticed that the swelling in my wrist had completely gone, and my wrist functioned normally. I have been able to use it without the least bit of pain ever since.

I am so grateful to our all-loving and merciful God, who created only good and never created sin, sickness, or death. I am also grateful to Christ Jesus, who came to the world to teach us the truth about God and show us how to heal the sick and sinning. Finally, I am grateful to Mary Baker Eddy, who reinstated Christianity’s lost element of healing for this day
and age.

I am so grateful to have Christian Science in my life.

Datu Mulyono
Jakarta, Indonesia

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