Testimony of Healing July 15, 2013 Issue

Eye exam overruled

Seaward B. Grant

After a regularly scheduled eye exam for my driver’s license, I was shocked to hear I had not passed. The motor vehicle department said I would need to come back and retake the test with corrective lenses. Instead, I called a friend who is a Christian Science practitioner. 

As a lifelong student of Christian Science, I had learned that I only need to turn to God to see healing take place in my life, no matter what the circumstances. The Bible assures us that God is “of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity” (Habakkuk 1:13). The practitioner encouraged me in my study of the Scriptures and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. In our brief conversation, he mentioned that it was simply fear that was stopping me from seeing myself as God’s clear image and likeness, which the Bible declares us to be (see Genesis 1:26, 27).

The practitioner’s prayerful acknowledgment had a big impact on me. I dropped all concern about passing the eye exam, even though I was only given a 30-day grace period to renew my driver’s license. Through prayer, I began focusing on what God already knew about me as His perfect, spiritual idea. Mary Baker Eddy writes about vision in the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “A demonstration of the facts of Soul in Jesus’ way resolves the dark visions of material sense into harmony and immortality” (p. 428). I liked that idea and reasoned that God’s image and likeness could not include any dark images of aging. Instead, I found comfort in the assurance that “thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning” (Job 11:17).