God’s Love Saves

Christian Science has saved my life. Before finding Christian Science, I had so much trouble with anxiety and unhappiness. After the initial healings and the calm that came, there was a period where everything appeared to be going wrong. I had a severe sense of lack, dissatisfaction at work, and disharmony in my relationships. This made me question if I should go on with my study, since my friends and others I knew, who were not students of Christian Science, seemed to be doing better in life than I was. But the more pressing question was: what did I know that I could go back to? I learned then that something else was being required of me.

Through my study and the practical instruction I learned from this church, I realized that God’s love is my salvation, it is what I needed to seek, and know that it is ever present as my shield (protection) and my staff (what I could lean on). I needed to understand and feel God’s love. I learned how to discipline my thinking by letting go of those fearful, sinful thoughts of revenge, disappointment, regret, and discouragement, and started to dwell on thoughts of integrity, compassion, forgiveness, humility, and love.

I learned that just as in the Bible stories of Daniel and the seven hungry lions, David and Goliath, and others, I too can turn away from the so-called human troubles to seek the ever-present comfort of God’s Love.

Our promised Comforter is here now, present with each one; we only need to turn to it for our salvation, freedom, and joy.