November 14, 2014
Comfort Received
Part of Bill’s current cancer
regiment is similar to dialysis and for two and three hours at a time he is
hooked up to machines and IV’s. The length of time required for treatment makes
it easy to build relationships with nurses, doctors and other patients. Most of
us subconsciously divide the patients from the medical professionals; the sick
from the healers. However, during a recent treatment I learned that many of the
medical staff themselves have had cancer, including one young female doctor
celebrating 12 years of living with cancer. “Praise be to the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all
comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can
comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from
God” (2 Cor 1:3-4 NIV).
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Gail;
-----This is part of the economy of God’s love in the church. If you can effect for the better physical circumstances causing suffering, do so. If you can gird up and strengthen spiritual knowledge and insights, do so. If you can effect for the better attitudes and emotions, do so. Whether or not you can do any of these, pray. Attending church is not just sitting amongst an audience in an auditorium. It is getting intimately enough acquainted with people to perceive what you can do to help fill in their blanks. We are His body not to only go around preaching the gospel. We are His body to affect the needs of His people who heard the gospel, for Jesus would also supply, counsel, and heal if He were in body with us on earth. The Psalms and Proverbs are replete with assurances and indications that God’s delight is to delight His people, to make them prosperous and their situations perfectly supplied with nothing but good and joy and delight. But as we don’t get to have our perfect delights, neither does God get to have His perfect delight while the deceit, destruction, and chaos of sin is present. As we grow in Christ, then, so also grows our ambitions to delight the Lord by helping and delighting those He would delight.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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