AFTER READING TODAY'S DAILY WORD I FELT THE DESIRE AND NEED TO PRAISE MY LORD FOR HIS GLORIOUS WATCHCARE IN MY LIFE EVEN WHEN MY HEART IS SELFISH AND CENTERED ON ME, WITH MY SHORT VISION. Two weeks ago the saturday before Easter, I was at the church putting up mini-blinds. I did'nt want to be there I had been having a terrible day, nothing had gone the way I wanted and I was angry and feeling sorry for myself. Yet I had been putting off this project for weeks and with Easter services the next day I stuffed my feelings and went to work. I was on my last mini-blind hanging on a ladder twelve feet off the floor. My wife had been holding the ladder, as it was a extension ladder and was at an angle. I stopped for a second to re-adjust my grip on the drill when my wife thought I was finished and let go of the ladder to begin cleaning up. In a moment it happened,as I started drill the ladder slipped. With my arms thru the rungs of the ladder I could do nothing but fall with the ladder. I feel straight down striking an air conditioner on the way down,then landing flat on my face with my left arm crushed under the ladder and my chest crushed from the impact. As I pulled my mangled arm from under the ladder and tried to breath I relized my condition. In severe pain I struggled with what to do. Seeing my arm beginning to swell my wife took my rings off my hand. The pastor and his wife were there, so while he made a phone call she and others began to pray. Several minutes had passed when I asked my wife what were we going to do. It was then I relized my arm no longer hurt. I stretched it out and it was no longer mangled the elbow that had been pushed out of place was right were it was supposed to be. I could breath without pain. Standing up I got back on the ladder and finished the job. I am still bruised and was sore for a few days. I even went to the Doctor and he took xrays. NO BROKEN BONES. What was, was no longer. This has cause me to reflect greatly on all the times, seen and unseen, God has spared me even though my behavior deserved something else. I am forever reminded that our Lord will NEVER leave us nor FORSAKE us and though not all times turn out this way He never stops watching and loving. Praise to Him who continually intercedes on our behalf JESUS CHRIST my LORD and SAVIOR!
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Praise be to God. You were being obedient to God and telling your contrary " flesh" no!
I love to hear a true man speak from his heart. I appreciate your courage and the message your shared. I thank God for protecting you from being more hurt. He was defintely watching over you. My pray is that you continue to be in sacred communion with God and watch the glory of his pesence flow through you and your home.
Glory to God my brother!!!!!
" But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18.
