For some years, I have been teetering on the brink of a medical diagnosis
I don’t want―not
the worst thing a person can have but not any walk in the park either. The
numbers hovered at the last point on the chart before medications and other
interventions would be necessary.
The tests are run every two years so I prepared myself as I waited for
results this year. There wouldn’t be any reason to expect anything other than
the diagnosis I dreaded. Or so I thought.
When I logged on my patient portal, I steadied myself as I read the
results. I came to the sentence. “…remarkably stable …”
I sat back in my chair. I loved the doctor expressed his or her amazement
that my status remained unchanged. It hadn’t improved, but it had not worsened
over a period of two years.
I let those words “remarkably stable” settle into my spirit.
In this health issue, I acquiesced to the idea that a situation in motion tends to stay in motion―that given time and natural
progression, I would receive the diagnosis. In my human assessment, I forgot to
factor in God.
And He is the biggest factor.
So here I am amazed and remarkably stable. Well, at least in this
circumstance. Big smile.
Friend, if you face a situation, which seems to be escalating and you
have accepted that it will only worsen, don’t forget the God factor.
Recently, we ran into a police officer who gave a testimony
about a police dog who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and expected to live
only a few weeks. He showed us an x-ray from a year ago depicting the bones
disintegrating and played a video of the dog limping. They prayed. Then he
brought up a video made this week of the dog streaking around the yard and
playing. Expected to live just weeks twelve months ago, he is now thriving. “God
overrides the natural,” the police officer said.
Yes, God does. Remarkably so.
So, let’s step back, see our situation with fresh eyes, and remember
how great our God truly is.
“Our Lord is great, with limitless strength; we’ll never comprehend
what he knows and does” (Psalm 147:5).