I had the authority of God’s truth to stand on

When I first went to work in the public schools a number of years ago, I was told by a teacher, “You know that you have come to work in a sickness factory, don’t you?”  At first I was puzzled, but later came to understand that this referred to kids coming down with illnesses that would be passed all around the school – to other kids as well as to staff and teachers.  At the time, thrilled with my new job, I brushed this consideration aside, knowing that because illness does not come from God, it has no truth to support it.  God does not make sickness; instead, His truth destroys it.    

As the weeks and months progressed into winter, and kids and staff did come down with colds and sore throats, I found myself also succumbing.  One evening, I stood at the kitchen sink washing dishes.  I had just come out of one bout of illness when suddenly I felt myself again coming down with those same miserable symptoms.  I was totally fed up with being ill, and decided I was not going to put up with it any longer.  This counsel from S&H came immediately to thought: 

“Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man” (SH 393:12). 

I did this vigorously, telling error I was done with yielding to the lie.  I didn’t have to – God’s law of good is supreme, while error’s so-called “law” of inevitable sickness is nothing but a misguided belief.  Well, I wasn’t going to bow down to this belief any longer – I had the authority of God’s truth to stand on, and nothing can prevail against it!  And as I stood there at the sink vehemently facing down the lie, I felt those very symptoms diminish until they disappeared entirely, all in the space of a couple of minutes.  I was thrilled! – not just to be free of the illness, but because I had demonstrated this truth in Science.