During one case, I had met the patient when helping another nurse to admit her. After the surgery I went to her room to check on her and to offer assistance to her nurse. The patient made a comment about all the nurses knowing her well.
"Well," I replied, "I've seen parts of you that YOU have never seen, because I have seen you on the inside." The patient chuckled in agreement.
Such it is with us and the Lord. He knows us better than we can ever know ourselves. He knows the truth of our hearts, our motives, our desires, our fears, our dreams, our disappointments. There is nothing in us that He does not know because He sees us "on the inside."
He is this very minute acquainted with every cell in our body and every atom that makes up those cells. He knows if our blood count is high or low, He knows our cholesterol and the status of the blood vessels supplying oxygen to our hearts. He knew my mother's cancer was there long before we knew it. He knew my father's arteries were blocked long before his fatal heart attack. He knew. He knows. He will forever know.
If there is someone I am going to trust about my health, and my family's health, it will be the One who knows every cell, every organ, every bone in our bodies. We do not need to embrace the temptation to fear about our future because, even though that path is hidden from us, He knows every step of it. And we know it is His perfect will to work all things for our good and for the conforming of us to the image of His dear Son.
Let us trust the Great Physician to heal where He knows best and to give grace and strength and comfort where it is not best to heal. He is our Comforter, He is our Strength. Let us run to Him and be glad.
"I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servants:
and none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate."
(Psalm 34:3, 22.)
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