ASLC Devotions -- Tuesday

 Psalm 41:3 The Lord sustains them on their sickbed;
   in their illness you heal all their infirmities.

In some ways I really believe that I have the greatest job in the world. I am privileged to be able to walk with people through all kinds of joys and sorrows in life, and to learn from them all along the way.

I walked into Joyce's room expecting sadness and tears. Anybody would have expected sadness and tears after Joyce's diagnosis. She didn't have much longer to live and what she had would be painful and hard. That was sure. I was prepared to try to offer comfort and to try to assure her that God would be with her even through all of this. That's my job.

Except that she assured me. She assured me that God is good, and that God had given her so many blessings throughout her life. She wanted only to talk about thankfulness. She wanted to talk about passing on her faith to her children and gratitude. I don't know about her children and grandchildren, but I know she passed on her faithfulness to me. The faithfulness that says, "Even here on my sickbed, I know that God sustains me and that God is a good and gracious God" is a faithfulness I can continue to learn and to carry.

In Christ,
Pastor Seth

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