Praying about contagion
In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes of Truth, a synonym for God, “Truth handles the most malignant contagion with perfect assurance” (p. 176). As a keen follower of Christ Jesus, Mrs. Eddy adhered to his model of backing up his statements with a track record of healing that illustrated the veracity of his words. Mrs. Eddy’s own healing record included a wide range of diseases, including contagious ones.
So we can trust this promise regarding Truth handling contagion. Christian Science reveals that Truth is omnipresent and omnipotent good, so no problem can evade God’s authority. Jesus proved throughout his healing ministry that God’s saving grace is always present and sufficient to remove anything arrayed against Truth, because nothing can be outside of the infinite good that is God.
Both Jesus and Mrs. Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, taught that we should follow in Jesus’ footsteps. The Apostle Paul faithfully did that, and in a letter to the early Christians in Corinth, told them how to stand for Truth in the face of destructive human arguments, plans, or speculations. He described it as a mental war, in which “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds” (II Corinthians 10:4). The passage immediately following that, as translated in the King James Bible, describes this battle as “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”
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