Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Dear ones,

Andrew has pneumonia and a kidney stone. "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, and the Lord delivers him out of them all". We pray that Andrew's deliverance will be out of his sickbed and into the life he enjoys again.

Love,
Laura

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for keeping up the posting during your "roller coaster" with Andrew. We have been rejoicing with seeing his progress and will continue to pray for his restoration. You are an encouragement to so us all as you continue to trust our Lord as you face these difficulties. God is good enabling us to be faithful.
Jack and Sandra Kreider

Anonymous said...

Andrew and your family are in our prayers.

Anonymous said...

Charles Spurgeon: "Lord, we desire this morning to contemplate with admiration thy ways toward us. Thou hast put some of us into the furnace. There is no child of thine but knows something of the heat of the furnace, and we perceive that thou are as a refiner unto us, and that the fire is meant to consume our dross and tin, therefore do we thank thee for it. For all the acts of discipline to which we are subject we would praise the wisdom and love of our divine Father. Thou wouldst not have us live in sin; sin is much worse than furnace work. All the trial in the world is not so hard to carry as a sense of sin. Lord, if thou doest give us choice to keep our sins and to live in pleasure, or to have them burnt away with trial we will say to thee, Lord, give us the sanctified affliction, but deliver us from all the influences of sin, from every evil habit, from all the accretions of former sin, all the ore that is mixed with the precious metal, everything that diminishes the brightness of thy grace in us, everything that keeps thee from taking delight in us, take it away, we beseech thee: and if this life is to be to thy people the crucible and the burning heat, even to a white heat, so let it be, so long as thou dost sit at the furnace mouth to watch the ore that nothing should be lost. Oh, blessed God, help any of thy children that are in the midst of the heat now. Let them see the Lord sitting near and watching, and let them feel perfectly at ease, because in His hands all things must be well."