Today at church, in one of those unplanned moments, a brother was asked to share with the congregation his testimony-in-process for healing of what doctors initially diagnosed just about two weeks ago to be a serious brain tumor that was also causing vision loss. He is a young man who attends with his wife and son and quite new to the congregation. He spoke for some time, going into the details of the past week arising out of this sudden condition. Then he said something that really made an impression on me: “I always knew God loved me, but now I really KNOW God loves me, with the way that the members of this church prayed for me, and called to check on me.”
‘Wow,’ I thought. ‘The way Christians were there for him (phone calls with about three persons actually) made that much of an impression? Wow.’
Isn’t it something how he translated this directly back to God’s love for Him? Although we certainly can’t project upon our relationship with God the way that all professing Christians treat us, there’s a lot to be learned from that about the results of actually walking in love towards other believers, especially those young in the faith.
I have a feeling that his statement impacted a lot of others just as much as it did me today.
p.s. By the way, after having the MRI scans and seeing the specialist, they didn’t find any tumors!
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