Testimony of Healing January 19, 2026 Issue

Healed of thinking I had enemies

Isaac Otieno

I’m grateful for the lesson I’ve learned that the ability to love our enemies must begin with an inward transformation. In other words, if we think someone is difficult to love, it is our thinking about them that needs healing.

For many years, I felt that I had critics or enemies among my siblings, workmates, and neighbors. However, as I matured in my understanding of Christian Science, I realized that the problem wasn’t them, but something I needed to correct in my own thought.

That’s not to say that others had never done anything wrong, but I found helpful insight in these words of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven” (5:43–45).

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