It’s empowering to understand that as children of God, we can think rightly and agree with spiritual truth that keeps us healthy and safe from suffering.

Human experience is a testing ground for our faith.  It gives us constant opportunity to sort right from wrong and commit to living the right.

One of the common temptations we face is suggestions of disease coming our way.  

Images of disease are paraded before us in the media, described to us by well-meaning friends and neighbors, and may be picked up mentally at random from public consciousness.  However, we can make a choice when disease presents itself to us.  We can reject it.  We can disagree with it and stay clear that we are going to keep living our healthy, clean pure life with God.

Mary Baker Eddy has strong words for dealing with suggestions of disease.  She instructs, “’Agree to disagree’ with approaching symptoms of chronic or acute disease, whether it is cancer, consumption, or smallpox.  Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law.  Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit.  Blot out the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in sickness and sin.  Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, ‘Thou art whole!’” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 390).

We are not helpless in the face of disease.  It is belief, not fact, and belief can be corrected with spiritual truth.  

Be quick to correct suggestions of disease with spiritual truth!  Agree to disagree.  And stay well.