Devotion for Thursday, March 5, The First Week of Lent
Matthew 7:7 | Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find;
knock, and the door will be opened for you.
I got a phone call one day from a father. “Our baby died when my wife fell at the train station. Will you do a funeral?” “Yes,” I said, immediately. Thinking, “I will do absolutely anything to lessen your suffering.” The faithful grandparents came. The coffin was tiny. Here is what was left: The poor wife blamed herself for falling, blamed herself for trying to get to work in her ninth month of pregnancy. The light was out of her eyes. How could a prayer for wholeness and healing be answered?
It was some months later, in a healing service, that Paula put her whole heart in Jesus’ love and asked him for a way forward. I watched her body change, I saw as Christ’s love washed over her. (Not so for her husband, Nick, it would be half a year before he had any relief! That story is for another devotional.)
Someday Paula and Nick may visit us at All Saints’, now with two lovely girls who have graduated college. They will testify to us of a prayer which seemed impossible to answer, and how God showed them a way.
What about you? Do you imagine there is something that is too hard for God?
PRAYER
Dear Jesus, help me to lay before you my most wounded self.
Send me the comfort you sent to Paula so many years ago.