Testimony of Healing April 18, 2016 Issue

My suffering stopped

Eleuther W. Mavungu

“Christian Science erases from the minds of invalids their mistaken belief that they live in or because of matter, or that a so-called material organism controls the health or existence of mankind, and induces rest in God, divine Love, as caring for all the conditions requisite for the well-being of man” (Mary Baker Eddy, Rudimental Divine Science, p. 12). That passage is the foundation of my testimony of healing.

One Sunday a few years ago, during the service at the local branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I attend, I suddenly suffered acute stomach pains and had to leave the room to go to the restroom. But the spiritual truths being read from the Lesson-Sermon uplifted my thought. After I came back into the room, I was tempted to rush home, but verse 10, in particular, from Psalm 91—“There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling”—helped me feel assured that I could stay until the end of the service.

Actually, a few Sunday School teachers and I had committed to going after the church service to an orphanage located about five kilometers from downtown (three kilometers by bus and then a walk of two kilometers on foot), where our church holds a Christian Science Sunday School. I was still in pain, but I felt I could attend and would not need to excuse myself. I did not want to give a place in my thoughts to this error of suffering or allow myself to fear it. There is a divine power, always present, that governs every aspect of our existence and on which we can rely.

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