For Kids November 20, 2017 Issue

‘I am safe in God’

Michelle Hudson

My mum just found a testimony that I wrote when I was a child, and I wanted to share it. This healing still means so much to me. It reminds me of how powerful it is to know that God’s love surrounds us all. Here it is:

I woke up one morning with a headache and a tummy ache. So I crawled into Mummy’s bed and asked her if she would help me pray. Mummy got out the Christian Science Quarterly so we could read that week’s Bible Lesson together. This verse from the Bible caught our attention: “Thou [God] art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance” (Psalms 32:7). I knew this meant that I was safe in God and nothing bad could touch me or hurt me. I felt that God’s love was all around me and that I could never be separated from His love.

We also sang Hymn 99 from the Christian Science Hymnal, which is based on the ninety-first Psalm. The last verse really helped me. It reads:

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