An older Christian woman I know picked up a “bug†while on a trip. On the airplane flying home, she grew desperately sick.
Thinking that if she would confess away thesickness, she would be instantly well, she said repeatedly, “I feel fine.†That formula didn’t work.
Next, she remembered a speaker who had urged that we are to praise the Lord in all things, so she began saying, “Lord, I thank You that I am sick.†That didn’t cure her illness, so she tried yet another stratagem, based on the title of a book she had read: Don’t Waste Your Sorrows.
“Lord,†she said, “I know You are going to use this sickness for some good. I don’t want this experience to be wasted.†Still, nothing in her condition changed.
Finally, in sheer desperation, she cried out to the Lord in childlike honesty: “O God, help me; I’m sick.â€
Too often we listen to the well-intentioned advice of others when we are ill rather than simply coming to the Lord with an honest admission of our need for His help. Psalm 41 shows us how to pray when we are sick.
For more, please click to: http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/spiritual-growth/18997-7-things-god-can-do-for-the-sick
Thinking that if she would confess away thesickness, she would be instantly well, she said repeatedly, “I feel fine.†That formula didn’t work.
Next, she remembered a speaker who had urged that we are to praise the Lord in all things, so she began saying, “Lord, I thank You that I am sick.†That didn’t cure her illness, so she tried yet another stratagem, based on the title of a book she had read: Don’t Waste Your Sorrows.
“Lord,†she said, “I know You are going to use this sickness for some good. I don’t want this experience to be wasted.†Still, nothing in her condition changed.
Finally, in sheer desperation, she cried out to the Lord in childlike honesty: “O God, help me; I’m sick.â€
Too often we listen to the well-intentioned advice of others when we are ill rather than simply coming to the Lord with an honest admission of our need for His help. Psalm 41 shows us how to pray when we are sick.
For more, please click to: http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/spiritual-growth/18997-7-things-god-can-do-for-the-sick
