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Data:
31/01/2003 03:21
Assunto: Creekside
Devotional January 31, 2003
Good
Morning:
We have a special treat this morning. Dr. Angelica Mansano, a
pediatrician in Dracena, Brazil, is providing our devotional for today.
Dr. Mansano works within a government funded Family Health Practice
designed to provide for some of the most needy children in her area. She
provides not only medical treatment for her patients and their families,
but as you will see in her devotional, "I Will Give You Rest",
she quite often provides spiritual comfort and treatment as well.
I was introduced to Dr. Mansano some time ago by Ana Biederman in Tulsa
who says that Angelica is like an evangelist and "God has used her
so much in her profession". She and Ana studied Bible together in
Brazil. I greatly appreciate Ana's expertise in English and Portuguese
to help finalize the devotional.
Isn't modern technology wonderful? We can share our morning devotional
with Christians all around the world.
God bless you all...
George Bragg
Creekside Christian Fellowship
Creekside Devotional
January 31, 2003
I
Will Give You Rest
Matthew 11.28-30 (KJV)
“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and
lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is
easy, and my
burden is light.”
In one of the last days of December, just after Christmas, a young lady
came to her appointment at the Family Health Program that is supported
by the Government. While she was waiting for me to finish with another
patient, she sat with her head back on the wall of the waiting room and
kept her eyes closed. She was a bit impatient. Her face and speech
showed it, but despite this she waited her time. The nurse asked me if
she could give her a pain medicine because she had such a terrible
headache. The lady refused the medicine the nurse offered saying that
she had just taken her own medicine (a very popular and well advertised
one that suggests that when people take it “their headache will just
disappear!”).
When she came in my exam room and sat before me, I looked in her sad
eyes and wondered what kind of troubles may be beyond that healthy young
woman’s looks and heart. I remembered that “the light of the body is
the eye... if therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great
is that darkness!” What in fact could cause her to be so heavy or have
brought her to this simple unit of health care if she refuses its
medicine? If her
medicine is better than ours why had she stayed there waiting and
murmuring?
Her vital signs were all normal as well as her physical exam. So I asked
her about her work duties, if they were too heavy, and I also asked
about her husband. As I suspected the answers were quite direct. She
takes care of
her two children working at two jobs because her husband left her six
months ago! She had forgiven him twice because of his adultery, but he
had not repented nor changed.
So I told her that she could have Jesus’ shoulder to help carry her
load because He loves her and cares about her. I continued to talk about
His love and fidelity, and the conversation went on and on talking about
Jesus,
and forgiveness. She cried a little bit, but finally left the room with
an easier mind, and her terrible migraine headache had gone!
LORD, Thank you, for you are the best friend anyone could ever find!
Thank you because we can rest in your love, and share all our loads just
with you, and we can be sure that we will find rest for our mind and
spirit.
I am
thankful in Jesus’ name.
Amem.
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