Flu: Annihilated by God’s Power

by Mark Unger

In the Bible we find so many wonderful promises to us, God’s children. The prophet Jeremiah caught a sense of our divine Father-Mother’s love for each of us when God told him, “I will cause them to dwell safely: And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: . . . Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good.” (Jer 32:37, 38, 41)

Jesus told us that the kingdom of God is within us (see Luke 17:21). That, too, is a promise, a truth. The lie today that is being spread around—that God does not care for His children, that the kingdom of heaven does not dwell in us, that we are vulnerable to flu and other diseases—is the opposite of the truth that God is telling us. We have a choice to decide what to believe—the Word of God or the news reports.

One time I was at work and had some very strong flu symptoms come over me and almost overwhelm me physically. I remember sitting there in front of my computer with tons of work to do, and I thought something to the effect “No! You are a liar! I am the perfect child of God, cared for by God and completely spiritual.”

I immediately saw very clearly that nothing could attack me like that or make me feel separated from God, from His heavenly kingdom. I rebelled, and refused to believe either the news reports that it was flu season or the reports from my body that I was experiencing this disease!

I could see that this is what Mary Baker Eddy says to do in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Instead of blind and calm submission to the incipient or advanced stages of disease, rise in rebellion against them. Banish the belief that you can possibly entertain a single intruding pain which cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind, and in this way you can prevent the development of pain in the body.” (page 391)

I felt God’s angels very quickly—what Mrs. Eddy describes in Science and Health as “God’s thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality” (page 581) —lift me up—my thought about myself. They helped me perceive my spirituality rather than feeling so material and vulnerable.

The fear of the disease that seemed to be quickly taking over vanished and so did all the symptoms of flu. I went on with my work—grateful and inspired by what just happened.

My healings are not always this immediate. Sometimes I have to pray much longer to get ride of the fear, and consequently the disease. But the healing always comes when I don’t give up, even if gradually. So don’t ever give up or think that something is wrong with you or your prayer because change doesn’t happen instantly. Every victory, fast or slow, is an important step in our spiritual growth and our immunity to disease.

These spiritual healings are the reason I know that we are loved and cared for by God every minute of every day, and nothing can invade our harmony when we choose to trust God’s care and not let anything else have a place in our consciousness. We do have a say in this and can side with our all-loving, all-powerful God, who is Love.