Testimony of Healing April 7, 2014 ISSUE

Grateful teenager shares healing

Jeffrey Ross

One day this past winter, I noticed red bumps on my body. I first became fearful and attempted to diagnose this condition. Soon, it appeared even worse. That night I focused on my spiritual perfection as God’s child, instead of trying to fix “bad matter” and somehow turn it into “good matter” through prayer; I am completely spiritual and not made up of matter at all. Even though I’d learned these things in Sunday School and from healings in my family, I still felt fearful about what I saw.

I’d learned through studying Christian Science that I can’t be hypnotized into believing that I am separated from the love and care of God. So I prayed to feel and understand this. The next day, my parents and I decided it was wise for me to stay home from school, and I called a Christian Science practitioner for support.

The practitioner explained to me that because there is one perfect cause (God) there can only be a perfect effect (man); I could not deviate from my naturally perfect state of being. Also, I read this in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick” (pp. 476–477 ). As I prayed to understand and apply this, I was able to see myself more clearly as God’s perfect spiritual idea.

Working with these concepts, my fear of the condition vanished. As the fear diminished, the bumps began to disappear. I was able to go back to school four days later, after a mandatory reporting to the school nurse, who gave me the OK to be back. She was astonished to see me return to school so quickly. I was also able to hop back into all my activities seamlessly, including playing on the basketball team, without a period of recuperation, much to the surprise of my coaches.

This healing experience gave me an opportunity to better understand my relationship to God and see more clearly that man is God’s perfect image and likeness. I am grateful to have been able to prove the healing power of Christian
Science.

Jeffrey Ross
Glen Rock, New Jersey, US

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