My first blog was about how God knows us personally. During our first hospital visit God expressed to me, in another way, how He knows. To see the conditions and the people in the hospital was hard. Our group visited the women’s ward, the children’s ward, and the ICU.
Great things did happen: a women who hadn’t felt her arm in over two years was able to move her fingers for the first time in those two years. God is a miracle worker!!!
The difficulties:
People with minor illnesses or injuries and people who are days, or even minutes, from death are all in the same room. I prayed over a woman who was literally nothing but skin and bones and I felt as if death were only days or hours away for her. I saw a baby only seconds old. The mother had given birth in the middle of the hallway with no one to help her. The baby was ashy white and didn’t cry until someone came up and grabbed the newborn by one of its legs. I saw a 3 or 4 yr. old girl laying in bed with a tube running from her chest cavity to a clear plastic bottle under her bed. in order to drain her chest of excess fluid. Her palms were white due to lack of blood. I heard babies whimpering in pain and discomfort.
I first asked God why He allowed this. Why these beautiful people must suffer such physical and emotion pain but the God spoke to me. He reminded me that He knows. He knows their situation and His heart breaks for these people far more than our hearts are capable of breaking.
I then kept repeating a phrase: “God, You are the creator of life and, also, the conqueror of death.” This reminded me that my job at the hospital is to share the joy, comfort, and peace that comes with knowing God.
God knows us and our job on earth is to point others to knowing Him.
