Late one afternoon about a year ago, I felt some soreness in the joint of my thigh. I didn't pay much attention. But later I started limping and could hardly put any weight on that leg. I was taken aback by the suddenness of the difficulty. I wondered what could have caused it. But I quickly realized that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find any real cause for pain or disability, since God is the only cause, and He causes only good.
I was not impressed with the pain anymore.
This Bible verse where Jesus spoke of the devil came to mind: "He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it" (John 8:44). I could see that evil doesn't have any origin because it is a lie. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Miscellaneous Writings, "Our Master, in his definition of Satan as a liar from the beginning, attested the absolute powerlessness—yea, nothingness—of evil: since a lie, being without foundation in fact, is merely a falsity; spiritually, literally, it is nothing" (p. 108). I reasoned that since God was not the origin or cause of this disability, it had no reality and no power over me.
