Recently I enjoyed a Wednesday evening testimony based on the old jingle, “There is no spot where God is not.” The testifier had experienced healing from the realization that no spot on the body—and no geographic spot on the globe—could be outside of God’s harmonizing presence. As I gratefully pondered those ideas, I was reminded that God’s omnipresence also extends to the fourth dimension—time. There is no moment—not a single instant—in which God is, or ever could be, absent.
About 50 years ago I was healed of the Asian flu. The first evening my appetite and bodily functions were restored, so I ate a late dinner and went to work the next morning. In the afternoon I called the Christian Science practitioner who had been praying with me to report that everything was fine except for a raging sore throat. She replied, “That is a lie about God’s presence in this moment. You don’t have it because God didn’t make it and doesn’t know it. You are completely free now, aren’t you?” I stopped to swallow before answering and discovered that I was indeed totally free. Incidentally, I have not experienced flu since then.
This last year I was tempted with the symptoms of a sore throat. I remembered the practitioner’s emphatic denial years ago and suddenly realized that there had never been a spot in time when the symptoms were real and that therefore they were not real at this moment, either. Very shortly the soreness vanished, and my voice was restored to normal.
