Testimony of Healing May 28, 1979 Issue

Complete reliance on God can protect and help us when we...

Steven Bayless

Complete reliance on God can protect and help us when we feel we're going under. Recently, a lingering sore throat troubled me, and although I gave myself treatment through prayer, as Christian Science teaches, the condition didn't improve. I was able to travel as a passenger by car on a necessary trip, but while the hours passed, the soreness increased, along with a recurring suggestion to give in and obtain medication. I fought this inclination by clinging to an understanding that God alone is real and that His ever-present power governs all. Matter has no power to cure or make us sick.

My voice was gone, and before long I felt other threatening symptoms. I shut my eyes and turned completely to God in prayer. I pondered truths I had learned from studying Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. Through this book I have come to know that God is Spirit, incorporeal and entirely good—and that man, created by God, reflects His nature. So I reasoned that, in reality, identity is not a body of matter—healthy or sick. I am spiritual, possessing only good and experiencing only good.

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