God's Love Heals Pain

Wanting to be obedient and to study the Sermon on the Mount for our precious Association day I set out to do this despite whisperings of “work commitments are really heavy just now I haven’t got time to study properly.”

Matthew 6:33 really leapt out. “Seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God.” That’s it! Instead of trying to deal with “a problem” all I have to do is learn more about God’s infinite Love. For all of us. And the recent Lesson on atonement revealed a sister passage from Science and Health: “Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love – the Kingdom of heaven – reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear.” Like the mists.

One morning I was feeling very depressed . . .owing to quite severe back and leg problems when walking, sitting, or standing.  I found myself thinking that if this was what my life was going to be like – pretty much all down hill, lacking employment, full of pain and immobility, showing no clear purpose or direction – I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue.

In tears, filled with anguish, I sat up in bed with the Bible and Science and Health. Humbly I prayed to know whatever transformation in my thinking needed to occur, God would reveal it to me.” Did I need this too, or what!

I loved the Bible’s advice to ‘trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.’ Proverbs 3:5, 6.

Shortly I felt a warmth coming over me, as if my Heavenly Father were putting His arm around me and saying, ‘Don’t you know that I love you?’ At that moment I felt so loved and so cared for – caught up in my Father-Mother God’s all-encompassing love, support, and strength. I felt the assurance and reassurance that all was well – not would be, should be, or could be, but right then, at that moment. I felt divine Love was supporting my struggling heart.