Cast Your Cares on the Lord
I have a date noted in my Bible by Psalm 55:22. "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall." The date of September 25, 2004. My husband and I were in Uganda teaching in a Bible College. Awesome experience!! This was about a month before we were to leave to come home and I began having terrible hip and leg pain. It was so bad in the mornings I could hardly walk to the bathroom. I saw a Ugandan doctor (not a good idea!!) and he gave me a few pills that didn't help much.
I couldn't understand why this was happening. I was in Uganda to serve the Lord. I was in a place where my only help was the Lord. So daily I would seek him and He would help me get through the day. I know that I was able to get through the rest of our time there, and still continue teaching only by the strength I got from the Lord.
James 1:2-3 says that we are to consider it pure joy when we face trials of many kind because the testing of our faith develops perseverance, with the end result of maturity. I can't say I faced that trial with pure joy, but I'm sure it did bring more maturity into my life. I had never been in a place where I had to totally depend on the Lord. There was no other source help available of any kind.
Further in James 1, verses 22-24, it tells us to not only hear the word, but to DO the word. Part of doing the word is learning to depend on the Lord and trust him. Sometimes the only way we learn to trust is to go through hard experiences.
When we returned home that year at the end of October, the pain I was having increased with a vengeance. I have never experienced such pain in my whole life. Looking back, I truly know it was the Lord who got me through that last month in Uganda. I had an MRI and it was discovered that I had a ruptured disk in my back (and I thought it was my hip and leg!!), and also narrowing of the spinal canal with compression on nerves. The Lord directed me to a doctor who did surgery and I haven't had any more problems with that. I know God can heal, but in this case he chose to use a doctor. The circumstances leading to my getting to that particular doctor have convinced me of that.
Learning to cast all our cares on the Lord is a learning process, but it is so awesome to know that he walks us through those experiences and will never let us fall.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the mothers reading this. Mothers especially need to cast their cares on the Lord.
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