Accepting Afflictions
June 23rd, 2008A good friend of mine recently was in a car accident. He ended up in a wheelchair because his lower spine was completely crushed with only a two percent hope of any functionality whatsoever. His family was devastated, I was in shock, but he seemed fine. He whistled at the hospital and sang little happy songs. He kept saying things like, “Wow, I’m so excited to get back to my life with these new and improved wheels.†In fact, he was so joyful that I thought he might have hit his head as well as his back! The day he came home, he wore one of his brightest Christian t shirts and tried preaching to the hospital staff. I asked him what it was that made him so downright crazy. He told me of the article he read the day before the accident entitled, “The Affection of Affliction.†It talked all about how God used those with afflictions and problems much more often than He used “perfect people.†I just couldn’t believe it. He was excited to be less because he knew that God would make him more. Now that’s faith.