GOD makes no mistakes in
dealing with HIS children!
(J.R. Miller, "Daily Bible Readings in the Life of Christ" 1890)
disabled people used to lie--
the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
One who was there had been
an invalid for thirty-eight years!"
John 5:3-5
That was a long time to be sick!
It is very hard to be an invalid
year after year!
This day's lesson may come to some
who have been thus afflicted, and
we should stop a minute to think
about their case. Christian invalids
have many comforts, if they will but
take them to heart. GOD makes no
mistakes in dealing with HIS children!
HE knows in what school they
will learn the best lessons--
and in what experiences
they will grow best.
The furnace-fires of sickness burn off
many a chain of sin and worldliness!
Many who are now in Heaven,
will thank GOD forever for their
invalidism in this life--
which kept them from sin.
We may be sure that GOD
never calls any of HIS children
into sickness without a purpose
of blessing them. There is . . .
some spiritual lesson which
HE wants to teach them;
some new glimpse of HIS love
which HE wants to show them;
some Christian virtue or grace
which HE wants to develop in them.
Sick-rooms should always be to us
sacred places, as we remember that
GOD has summoned us there for
some special work upon our souls.
We need to be very careful lest we miss
the good which HE wants us to receive.
It is only those who trust CHRIST
and lie upon HIS bosom--
who are blessed by sickness.
Too many invalids grow discontented,
unhappy, sour and fretful. Sickness
ofttimes fails to do good to those who
suffer. There are few experiences
in which we so much need to be
watchful over ourselves, and
prayerful toward GOD. Be sure to
keep the sickness out of your heart--
and keep CHRIST there with HIS
love and peace!
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