Recently I awakened in the night with stomach trouble. I lay in bed praying with these thoughts: God is not causing this condition. He is causing harmony. This condition cannot be real. God has made me His perfect child.
I did not go back to sleep, but wakefully thought along these lines. After a while, the upset stopped. I went to sleep for the rest of the night.
In the morning I felt well except I was very tired. At first I didn’t want to get up, but remembering that God causes only good, I knew I could express strength instead of weakness. I challenged the belief that I could manifest anything other than what God, good, knows. I got up in spite of the fatigue, knowing I was supported by Truth, and went to work. Once at work, my strength returned immediately with no further challenge.
God is cause and man is effect. This wonderful fact applies to each of us. Reading the Bible along with Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy has taught me that Mind (a synonym for God) is the only intelligence and that I do not have a separate mind of my own with which to think sickly thoughts. I have the thoughts that Mind expresses in me—thoughts of health and peace.
Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health: “If sickness is true or the idea of Truth, you cannot destroy sickness, and it would be absurd to try. Then classify sickness and error as our Master did, when he spoke of the sick, ‘whom Satan hath bound,’ and find a sovereign antidote for error in the life-giving power of Truth acting on human belief, a power which opens the prison doors to such as are bound, and sets the captive free physically and morally” (p. 495). This was certainly proved true in my experience.
