Check-up

We are now at the beginning of the second month in this new year. It is a good point at which to look back over January and see how your walk with the Lord has been. I was helped with this through an email that a friend sent me. As you know my prayer for this year is to grow to be more like the Saviour (see my previous blog entry for January 8). So, lets do a check-up together.


I went to the Lord's clinic to have my routine check-up and it was confirmed I was ill.


When Jesus took my blood pressure, He saw I was low on tenderness. When he read my temperature, the thermometer registered 40 degrees of anxiety. He ran an elctrocardiogram and found that I needed several 'love bypasses' since my arteries were blocked with loneliness and could not provide for an empty heart.


I went to orthopedics because I could not walk by my brother's side and I could not hug my friends since I had fractured myself when tripping with envy. He also found I was shortsighted when I could not see beyond the shortcomings of my brothers and sisters. When I complained about deafness, the diagnosis was that I had stopped listening to Jesus' voice talking to me on a daily basis.


For all of that Jesus gave me a free consultation, thanks to his mercifulness. So, my pledge is to, once I leave the clinic, only take the natural remedies He prescribed through His words of truth.

• Every morning take a glassful of gratitude
• When getting to work, take one spoon of peace
• Every hour take one pill of patience, one cup of brotherhood and one glass of humility
• When getting home, take on dose of love
• When getting to bed take two capsules of clear conscience

Do not give in to sadness or desperation for what you are going through today. God knows how you feel...God knows exactly and with perfection what is to happen to you in your life at this precise moment. God's purpose for you is simply perfect. He wants to show you that things that only you can understand by living what you are living, and by being in the place you are now.

May God give you for every storm, a rainbow; for every tear, a smile; for every care, a promise and a blessing in each trial; for every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share; for every sigh, a sweet song and an answer for each prayer.

My prayer is that this check-up and advice will help to guide you as you continue on in your walk with the Lord. It is indeed challenging times so continue to visit the clinic and allow the Great Physician to heal the soul.

Shalom