The Bible and Mary Baker Eddy's books Science and Health and Miscellaneous Writings include firsthand accounts of the power of God to heal. The Christian Science periodicals publish new accounts of healing in each issue. In deeply moving and heartfelt descriptions, those healed pour out their gratitude for God's goodness and power. How do some people respond to these testimonies?
There are scoffers—those who apparently refuse to accept Biblical accounts of healing as having any validity whatsoever. They also reject out of hand the countless healings that have been experienced consistently by Christian Scientists for over a century.
Then there are "believers"—those who accept the thought that God's power can heal and who rejoice with the testifier. Perhaps you are a "believer"—or are at least "open" to the thought of spiritual healing. Frequently we marvel at the swiftness of the healing or at the overcoming of a trouble of apparent magnitude. How many times, however, do we accept accounts of such healings as though they were direct proof of God's love, not just for the testifier, but also for us? How often do we accept that the spiritual facts demonstrated in the testimony are true for us and that we can rely on those same laws right now to heal us? Do we instead sometimes fall into one or more of the following mental traps that would prevent us from gaining full benefit from the testimony?
