Thoughts for another day

Oct. 11, 2007

Today's verse: Ps. 89:33. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

A few years ago, I was witness to an amazing testimony of a father who testified how God’s faithfulness brought his 10-year-old daughter back from the brink of death. Thinking about it, I look up to heaven, eyes misty; and sing, ‘How great thou art…’

The girl had a malignant tumor in her liver, the size of a man’s fist. The liver itself would have been less than half it’s size! Doctors gave up. ‘Twenty to thirty days more’, they said. Let her die in peace. Relatives, flocked around ready with condolences. One look at the little girl and even the biggest optimist would drown in melancholy. In fifteen days, the bubbly and chirpy girl was reduced to skin and bones with tubes sticking out from her hands, her legs, etc. Many bottles of blood were pumped into her because the only thing she did was vomit blood. What a funereal situation.

But the girl’s father never gave up. He remembered Jairus’ daughter. Didn’t Jesus raise her up even when she was dead; and the people had laughed when told she was sleeping! And he knew Jesus was the same: yesterday, today and forever. In his heart, he chanted: Jesus never fails. He got into the Word. He got out the promises God made and in all this He saw God’s faithfulness being mentioned again and again. Verses like today’s made his hope soar even as life in the girl sank. A reputed oncologist, called in as a last resort, refused to operate while the girl was on the operating table as he didn’t want the girl to die even as he operated.

But, my friend, God never fails. In an amazing turn of events, the tumor began to shrink; it shrank and shrank till it was the size of a pea and could be operated. Today, the girl is alive and doing well…The Word became flesh and gave life to the girl. The Word, which God gave us. The very Word, which assures us of all good things if we believe. As I write this, there is an anointing around me because of His Word. As you read this, feel His anointing, not because I tell you it is there, but because He is faithful and He has no partiality and above all, His Word is True.