Yesterday I Wasn't; Today I Am

March 10

Dear Reader,

Recently, a lady in our church told me of a serious medical condition she was experiencing. We prayed together and I shared the following with her. After several weeks of tests, it has been concluded that there is nothing amiss, that a minor condition may exist that can be easily remedied. Further testing will be done in six months.

God bless each of you as you read and may HE expand your faith to anticipate even more of the good things His Word promises to you as you simply come to Him in faith, "believing that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him," Hebrews 11:6.

I love you all, and pray you appropriate all His promises so every need you face may be met in Jesus Christ who "is the same yesterday, today, and forever," Hebrews 13:8.



The inconclusiveness of your situation may cause you confusion and anxiety, but perhaps God has a great purpose in allowing it. The following is an example of just such a scenario which was endured by one of Christ’s faithful servants.

There once was a lady who had a medical problem that defied diagnosis. She had seen more than one doctor but her condition remained unidentified. Finally it was concluded that exploratory surgery would be done to try to determine what was causing her problem.

Even this seemed to be unfruitful, for the surgeons could locate nothing amiss. However, just when they were ready to sew her up without finding the problem, she began to speak to them in tongues while under the anesthetic.

As it happened one of the doctors was from a foreign country and he understood every word because she was speaking his native language! She not only told him where the problem was and how to fix it, but she also witnessed Christ to him.

When he visited her the next day after she'd awakened from the anesthetic, he told her about the incident. He asked if she knew the language she'd spoken. She assured him that she spoke only English.

She asked him if he were a Christian and he said, "Yesterday I wasn't, but today I am."

Perhaps your ordeal is rooted in the fact that as you go through it, you are a witness to every person you meet of what it is to be a person of faith who is secure even in the midst of a trial because the “joy of the Lord, ” Nehemiah 8:10, is indeed the strength on which you lean.

Please know, dear reader, that much faith is added to yours that when the conclusion of the matter which is imposing itself upon you is reached, you will be whole from the top of your head to the bottoms of your feet and someone who was lost will have been found in Christ because of your faithful witness of the light that is Jesus through the darkest place you’ve ever been.

Remember the beautiful words scrawled on the wall of the Bastille during the horrible days of the French Revolution: "I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining; I believe in love, even when I can't feel it; I believe in God, even when He seems to be silent."

Keep believing in what you know and keep holding fast to the One who is always speaking to your spirit, “Peace, be still,” Matthew 8:23-27.