My eyes got swollen on Sunday night and since then I’ve been sick, but the LORD enabled me to write this quick post.
I told one of my friends that it was no fun being sick, but it was interesting. I realized that although things are bad, I don’t have to work, and I can rest.
Flat on my back in bed a dragon hangs off the ceiling fan over me. He doesn’t seem like a bad dragon. He looks like he’s flying across the sky, and I’ve often admired him. I thought, “We continue to fly high, even in bad circumstances.”
My friends kept checking on me. “This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you,” Jesus said, in John 15. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.” Love is obeying God. They prayed and comforted me all week because they obey what God says in the Bible. My friends helped me, not necessarily because it seemed like a good idea, or they liked me, or it was a fun thing to do, but because they obey. That’s what’s needed today. We see the world’s deception, that most things are fake, and we don’t have any confidence in people and institutions. My Bible has 1747 pages. What’s so difficult about obeying every single word of 1747 pages when burdensome government documents are 20,000 pages?
Especially since the Bible is encouraging. Elijah the Old Testament prophet told king Ahab there wouldn’t be rain for years and the LORD told him to hide himself by the brook Cherith where ravens brought him food until the brook dried up and the LORD told him to go to Zarephath to dwell because the LORD commanded a widow there to sustain him and Elijah met her at the gate of the city and he called to her to fetch him some water and as she was going to fetch it he told her to bring him some bread and she said she only had enough for one day and then she and her son would die and Elijah assured her to make something for them all because the LORD said she would never run out of food until he would send rain upon the earth and she went and did what he said and they never ran out of food. And then her son died, and Elijah prayed, and the son’s soul came back to him.