School Of Sickness!
"My flesh and my heart fail;
but God is the strength of my
heart and my portion forever."
Psalm 73: 26
Samuel Lane Loomis, a minister of yesteryear, said wise people
learn by God’s grace to consider sickness a school where one can
learn great lessons; a battlefield where one can win great victories;
and a garden where one may pick beautiful flowers and fruits.
Many Christians who contracted COVID look back
at the experience as a time
when God spoke to their
hearts and deepened their lives as never before.
The psalmist said, “My health may fail, and my spirit
may grow weak, but God
remains the strength of my
heart; he is mine forever”
(Psalm 73: 26).
Through sicknesses, we trust in the promises of our Father.
He'll never leave or forsake us. The apostle Paul concluded:
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man
is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day”
(2 Corinthians 4:16).
Do you feel badly today? Ask God to turn
sickness into His school, His battlefield of
victory, His garden of peace. And may He
do it!
"My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary
causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us.
He does nothing in vain."
John Henry Newman
