Sovereignty
Why is it so easy to embrace God's sovereign power until something challenging get tossed into your own lap. Today a dear friend of mine goes under the knife for open heart surgery. He awoke Monday morning with chest pain. The news saddened me a great deal. At first surreal my thoughts turned to confusion. Why him. He is a man that loves, serves and pursues God. This man is an inspiration to me and an example of how to live.
Upon further testing the doctors found another problem with his heart. The tiny blockage that caused the chest pain turned out to be a blessing. They discovered a heart condition that they usually only find in autopsies. Somehow a couple of the veins in his heart are putting pressure on the aorta and open heart surgery is needed. This picture reminds me of the control God has and His heart for His people. Even though this rough time is just beginning and His plan for this situation is has not yet been revealed, it reminds me to love, serve and pursue God with all of my life. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. If you are reading this would you please lift up a prayer for Blaine and his family. I can't imagine what they must be feeling like.
Lord, I lift up Blaine. I pray that you will protect him right now as he is in surgery. Give the doctors skilled hands and may this time Blaine has with his doctors be a time where Your light shines. Please heal Blaine. I lift up the rest of his family. I pray that you comfort them especially Blaine's wife because her kids are away at college. Please draw near to this family and teach them something about You.
Amen.
posted by dpop27 at 10:07 AM
5 Comments:
hey man, i had no idea you had a blog. sweet. i'll definitely be praying for Blaine. something thats funny though is that i embrace God's sovereignty more easily when life's hard because it snaps me back into reality. When everything's good, i lose touch with God.
2:45 PM
Nice dude i like the digs, The thing i love about Gods sovereignty is how much power it actually carries, its not just that He is holy its that he has the power to do anything with it which is so awesome and really challenging to me.
9:55 PM
Hey Dan-It's Susan. I can't thank you enough for all you and your family has done for my family throughout all of this. Thanks so much for your encouragement and support and most importantly for your prayers and your reminders to all of us of God's love and sovereignty. I have never seen God's hand work so clearly in my life before. When I was with my dad these past few days, I saw a new and cahnged man. God literally had to break my dad's heart so He could re-mold it into the way He wants. My dad has always been a believer, but this time of suffering was God saying, "Blaine its time I had control of all of your heart, not just some of it." It has been awesome seeing this change in him and I am so excited to see what God has planned for my dad and how he is going to use this experience to continue to dad my dad closer to Him and use it for His glory. You are so right-prayer IS powerful, community and fellowship are lifelines in times when you need support, and GOD is LOVE!!! Thanks so much for everything. My family is so blessed by you. You mean so much to all of us!
6:03 PM
yo dan you gots a blog too!? its stevo! i am here in CALI!! yeah you should check out my blog i will try to keep peeps informed bout my cool life in CALi!! GOD is diff working in my heart lemme tell ya later
11:15 PM
Your blog is awesome. And so are you.
1:33 PM
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