Something so Small, that can do much Damage!
Recognition Of the Cross In Painful Times
This world can truly be known for throwing life lessons at a person. Wednesday, October 11/ 2006, I woke up to some rather scary news from one of my best friends Dan Foreman, he had been driving and was in an accident. Thoughts quickly crossed my mind of whether or not he was okay, or what I could possibly do being miles away from him.
There was really nothing I could do. Pain began to approach me, a pain that began to become more and more unbearable as time went by. I went downstairs to the lounge, but this pain would not leave me, at first I thought the pain I was feeling was over my worrying, but it was'nt that.
Before I knew it, Class was'nt looking like something I wanted to do on this day and I went to the secretary at the college I am attending to take me to the hopital.
This pain haunted me, it began to increase more and more by what seemed like the minute, one cannot even begin to imagine the feeling unless they experienced this themselves. Finally, I was rushed to the Hospital, where I would wait....
When in the Hospital I had to register myself to be looked at, then wait around to be tended to. The wait overwhelmed me, the pain made me feel like I was being ripped apart from the inside out, like there was someone with a spear on the inside, chipping his way out.
All thoughts left my mind, all thoughts were gone, but the thought of the possibility that I may not make it through this time clouded my thoughts. The waiting seemed to make the pain worsten. Finally after waiting a person who had been waiting longer than me stood up and told the nurse enough! somebody help this boy.
Obviously, I made it through...I am alive today, living to tell my story of my suffering and that story I will tell with gratitude to the God who got me through my agony. Through this whole time I was having a God please tell me why moment.
I found out pretty quick why? I had problems with Kidney stones in the past, and I had fallen from the instruction I was given to avoid such problems, but I never listened.
Thinking to the suffering I went through, I look back on the morning, where I received some bad news about my friend, through all of this, I never did once think about him or any of my other friends, the pain was enough to think about.
But then I think about Christ, whom God sent for us, who died on that Cross.
He lived as we have, He died as some die, but today He is a risen God who has overcome death. The most amazing thing through all of this is that during that suffering that Jesus went through, never once did somebody stand and say enough! as that women in the hospital room did for me. When Jesus endured the suffering He had, the severe beatings, there was no Mercy shown at all.
Must we forget, that through all that Christ endured on that day that He was Crucified before the people, through all of His suffering, the one thought on His mind was His friends. Through all that Jesus went through He took the Fall and Thought of Each of Us above all.
Life is a journey and there is lots that we can learn in life if we open our eyes to what God has shown us and today He has shown me something beautiful and that is His Mercy, His wonderful power, While I was laying in agony on that Hospital bed, my first thought was my pain, but Gods first thought was me.
God puts us first, let us put Him first!
posted by Darrell @ 10:24 AM
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