Sunday Reflections

By |Published On: May 24, 2015|Categories: News|

Oswald ChambersWhen I was first injured, I wasn’t the kindest person to those caring for me. At the hospital I was short with nurses, reluctant to work with therapists; and at home, well — all I wanted was for my sister to close the drapes, turn off the lights and leave me alone. It wasn’t until I got tired of my sour disposition and asked God to show me how to live, that my attitude began to change. As Oswald Chambers rightly said, “We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person — the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.” Please don’t think that I’ve been rid of every urge to complain or every fear linked to quadriplegia; but it does mean that now I can be, as 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 puts it, “content with weakness” because I know that through my hardships, Christ is glorified. And on days when I feel like I can’t bear any more paralysis and pain? I can trust that God is working in me, giving me the desire and the power to do what pleases Him (Philippians 2:13). 

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