Time for me to grow up…
We live in a world so focused on itself that sadly we are becoming more blind to the loneliness, heartache and lostness of those around us! I walk many days of a normal week down lonely corridors located in all the major hospitals that lead to their intensive care units. As I walk down those aisles to my left and to my right are gatherings of families, couples and individuals. On each of their emotionally tired and drained faces, amidst the tears that have left their lines of travel my heart is initially overwhelmed with a sense of helplessness, the urge to run and comfort them, at least to acknowledge to them that I see their brokenness and frailty.
My world, my issues, my affairs and my problems then take on a flimsy wastefulness of triviality!
We live in a world that is broken, lost and without hope and the residue of tragedy seems to fall like ash from a massive volcanic eruption covering all and missing no-one. But 2,000 years ago a child was born into a poor family in a small town called Nazareth miraculously to a young girl called Mary who was a virgin. God Himself walked into the corridor of mankind’s intensive care unit where the greatest viral infection called sin was dragging every man woman boy and girl to their death. But Jesus Christ did not walk past us, nor ignore us, but He personally did what every parent of a sick child would love to have the power to do. He took that which was killing us, this sin, and He took it upon Himself and allowed it to take His life in place of ours.
But after His death, He rose from the dead and now offers to each of us, a cure for this horrible fatal disease called sin. He now offers us eternal life if we would but accept what He had done for us personally. So that now as I walk down those aisles, I can stop and pray with that struggling family, that torn individual and we can call upon Jesus name for help. I can hold the hand of a man whose life is about to end in this world and tell Him Jesus words – I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die!…..John 11:25 That his last breath here will be followed by his first in heaven. That his eyes will see the Lord Himself as they awaken to a new eternal life.
It is time for us to grow up and take our eyes off of ourselves and to look around us to those perhaps who are not just in ICU waiting rooms and corridors but in workplaces, our neighborhood, our classes even where we shop. We live in a lost, broken and lonely world where there is a cure for such heart rending conditions, the deadliest disease called sin.
Jesus said, Come unto Me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest…Matthew 11:28.
If you know Jesus Christ today as you read this blog, “it’s time to grow up”, and let us do what Christ has us here to do – to tell those whose faces tell such sad stories of THE CURE – and let us kneel down with them, and together call on the God of all comfort to touch them! You can whisper a name to them that is above all other names. You can tell then with surety of Jesus love for them and how they can know this love by simply calling on His name!
Perhaps you are one who finds themselves in such a corridor where a loved one is failing…Call upon the Lord and He will answer you and He will come and give you comfort and He will never ever leave you alone! He promised!