Three years ago, when living and working in Lebanon, I started feeling some pain in my right shoulder. Absorbed by my work and daily activities, I must confess, I did not take time to reject the erroneous belief that matter has intelligence and to pray about the situation.
In a few weeks, the pain became overwhelming and I could not move my arm properly, which was especially uncomfortable when I had to put on clothes. During the night the pain would wake me up, so I could not sleep except for very short periods.
That was when I began to pray. First I rejected the suggestion that I, God’s perfect, spiritual creation, could have any problem with movement. As the Apostle Paul states, “In him [God] we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28). Each time I was affected by the problem, I repeated those words, stuck to them as the very truth about me.
