Testimony of Healing November 4, 2013 Issue

Injured muscle healed

Nathan Gotch

Earlier this year, I was weight lifting and performing squats. I proceeded with my normal repetitions and incrementally increased the weight with each set. During the third set of squats, I lowered my body into the full squat position and felt pain in the inner part of my leg. It appeared I had pulled or torn the muscle. I immediately concluded the training session and began praying to eliminate from my thinking the suggestion that I was made of matter, and therefore susceptible to injury.

The pain was severe enough that I began limping, and I realized that I was really giving power to a suggestion of existence in matter. I thought about “the scientific statement of being,” a powerful spiritual statement written by Mary Baker Eddy that appears on page 468 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The first line, “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter,” was my focus. I asked myself, “Does a muscle have intelligence?” The answer seemed obvious to me: How could it? I then asked, “Would God ever create me, His spiritual idea, flawed or less than perfect?” Again, the answer had to be no. These statements reminded me that my real existence didn’t have anything to do with matter at all; I reflect only spiritual qualities such as strength and control. I continued my prayer until I fell asleep, about an hour after the incident.

The next day there was no pain at all, and my walk was completely normal. The healing was so complete, in fact, that at first I didn’t even remember what had happened the previous night. The healing was marvelous, and it showed me that I can rely on my conviction that God is all and that there is no intelligence in a muscle or in matter.

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