Humbled

Today I stand amazed at answered prayer.

As I mentioned in my last blog I was honored with an invitation to speak at the ladies retreat in Halifax. I wondered at God's timing but in the end believed God knew all about my situation and this wouldn't have come up if He didn't want me to say yes. And besides it gave me an opportunity to see the grandchildren.

A week before I left for Halifax I started to have intense pain in my left knee. I figured it would go away in a few days but it only got worse. Why now? Did God give me this opportunity only to take it away, was Satan trying to discourage me or was it just a result of our sin cursed world and old age creeping in.

As the time drew near I knew I needed some relief or I wouldn't be able to concentrate so I began to ask for prayer. Immediately I felt some relief and I was able get through each session with minimal pain. Within hours after the last meeting, however, the pain returned and I'm looking forward to following through with those Doctor appointments.

Hannah Hurand writes in her book "Hinds Feet on High Places": To learn the secret of victorious living has been the hearts desire of those who love the Lord in every generation. We all want to be able to react to evil, tribulation, sorrow, pain and every wrong thing in such a way that they will be overcome and transformed into something to the praise and glory of God. As Christians we know in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even the most unjust and cruel things as well as all seemly pointless and underserved sufferings have been permitted by God as a glorious opportunity for us to react to them in such a way that our Lord and Savior is able to produce in us, little by little, his own lovely character. ….. The only way is by learning to accept, day by day, the actual conditions and tests permitted by God, by a continually repeated laying down of our own will and acceptance of his as it is presented to us in the form of the lives of the people with whom we live and work and in the things that happen to us.

I trust this set back will direct me towards another laying down of my own will and acceptance of His.