I HAD JUST been learning about the need to be consistent and persistent in holding to divine Truth, when an opportunity to demonstrate the beneficial effect of doing so came along.
I gradually became aware of a pain in my breast. As this pain continued, a host of fears came along with it. I was tempted to think about the potential situation in detail, to physically search for it, to wonder about all the claims and/or side effects that might be associated with it, and to contemplate all the things I wanted to do that it could deprive me of. But I remembered an instruction from Christ Jesus that means a great deal to me: "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison" (Matt. 5:25). Agreeing with this adversary meant, to me, to immediately come to terms with each element of this situation every time it presented itself and to turn to the truth that Jesus promised would make me free.
At first, I was afraid that my husband would notice something, become alarmed, and possibly demand a medical solution. As I dearly wanted to heal this through Christian Science, which had been the means for healing other difficulties in my life, I immediately took the stand that evil, having no cause or power behind it, could not expand into something. I knew that evil, the opposite of God, had no right to take its own course. It had no principle of its own to carry it forward and no law to say how it must be expressed. But I also knew that just insisting on this was not enough. I needed to understand more about God. Then, with this truth, or spiritual understanding of Him and His creation, I could refute disease and the error that creates it—and thereby heal the sickness.
