Testimony of Healing December 9, 2019 Issue

Chronic muscle pain dissolves

George Fay

For decades I lived with constant back pain, and about once a year I would get a severe pain that made any movement very difficult. With great care, the worst of the pain would fade away after three or more months. So in the early fall of 2018, when I felt this severe pain again, I thought I was condemned to months of inactivity and pain. However, after three days of this, I was thinking of all that I had been healed of through Christian Science—fevers, hearing loss, measles, and much more. I knew that no problem could be beyond God’s power. So I decided to pray to God to find healing.

Humbly, I listened with all my heart for His answer. Immediately, the idea came that I should learn more about God. I would do this by asking God each morning for a lesson, and then working all day on understanding that lesson. Determined to learn more, I asked God for my first lesson and heard a question: “Why did Jesus heal?”

From my study of the Bible, I knew that Christ Jesus, and others such as Moses, healed. The textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, explains that they healed in order to prove God’s supremacy (see pp. 321–322). But I also realized that Jesus’ oneness with God as God’s Son gave him the understanding that God’s image must be as spiritually perfect, whole, and good as its source. When Jesus saw people yearning for freedom from suffering, he could not help but correct the lie that they could be anything other than God’s pure image, and this resulted in healing. So Jesus healed again and again, not only to prove God’s power, goodness, and ever-presence but also because
he loved God and man so much.