Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4
O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.
Isaiah 25:1
It was exactly one year ago today that I found Karen unconscious on the floor of our home. Since that moment our lives have become a public testimony to God’s faithfulness. Though God’s holy character alone is enough fodder to feed our praise for an eternity we are grateful that God chose to use our family this year as an object lesson in the marvelous way he cares for his people.
What a comforting thing to know that the events of the past year were no accident of blind history and that our future has been marvelously planned from long ago. As we stand on the precipice of an unknown future we have no fear for what he has planned for us because by the blood of Christ our future is found in the palm his pierced hand.
How forgetful and ungrateful we would be if after the many examples of God’s faithfulness to us this past year we forgot to rest in God’s promises to us. We ought not to forget that,
- He was faithful in placing Karen under the care of the best doctors in the nation
- He was faithful in surrounding us with loving family and friends in the darkest hour of our life
- He was faithful in increasing our faith rather than allowing us to become self-centered and bitter
- He was faithful in showering us with people willing to give of their time and resources.
- He was faithful in protecting the hearts of our children.
- He was faithful in turning a sentence of death into a life of hope.
- He was faithful in using Karen’s pain and suffering to bring life, hope and change to others.
- He was faithful in bringing Karen out of surgery able to talk, sing and wow the doctors with her mathematical prowess.
- He was faithful through seven weeks of terrible radiation.
- He was faithful to bring us wonderful news after every MRI.
This list is but a short summary of all that could be recounted of Christ’s faithfulness to our family. I look forward to the day when God will gather all his people together before his throne where we will be able to sing an inexhaustible list of his praises with abandon and without distraction. Until that day we are satisfied with the glimpses that God has given us into the wonderful way he loves us and we sing his praises, though feebily, with sincerity and thankfulness.
“Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!" Revelation 7:12
P.S. please be in prayer for Karen's next MRI in mid-November
