Testimony of Healing July 25, 2016 Issue

Protected from ear injury

Bruce Koehler

A while back, as I was reading the weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson, I was struck by a passage from Proverbs, which reads, “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them” (20:12).

I studied the Lesson every day that week, trying to understand the spiritual meaning of those words—that in reality we hear and see spiritually, not materially, because our identity did not originate in matter, but came from God, our ever-present, loving Father and Mother. And God is Spirit, so we are spiritual. As we read in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, “According to Christian Science, the only real senses of man are spiritual, emanating from divine Mind” (p. 284).

Another point that was important to me is that because God is perfect and can never be injured or harmed, so we, as God’s offspring, cannot be injured or harmed. We always have been, are, and ever will be perfect and unharmed because we reflect God. Our hearing, sight—all of our spiritual senses—are perfect, unharmed, and can only sense harmony, the true condition of being.

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