Chonda Pierce is a Christian comedian and is married to her best friend. Her best friend recently experienced a brain hemorrhage (Hemorrhagic Stroke) as I did seven years ago July 09.
I can't help but think what my family, mainly my wife, must have been going through seven years ago today. I often speak of my ordeal almost haphazardly, as if it were a broken arm or a cut leg. The numbers tell a far more sobering story. Eighty Percent, that is 8 out of ten people, who experience Hemorrhagic Strokes do not survive. When some of us do survive, doctors are usually aware that there was some divine intervention. There is no explanation for GOD working in a persons life. When there is no explanation, we resort to the only word we have to describe something, a "MIRACLE"!
There is also no explanation for GOD working in our lives spiritually. Just as I rightfully deserved to have not survived the Hemorrhagic Stroke, we all rightfully deserve death, hell, and the grace spiritually! But GOD so loved ALL OF US that HE provided JESUS to be the redemption we had no other way of receiving. Just as I needed a "MIRACLE" seven years ago, we all need a "MIRACLE" to enter Heaven!
The numbers can paint a bleak outlook for brain hemorrhage patients. But the prospects for getting to Heaven without knowing JESUS is far worse. 1 Timothy 2:5-6 reminds us "For there is ONE GOD, and ONE Mediator between GOD and man, which is the man CHRIST JESUS, WHO gave HIMSELF a ransom for all men, to be that testimony in due time". We have no hope without our ransom being paid, and the only ONE capable of that is JESUS CHRIST!
My prayers will continue for the husband of Chonda Pierce. As I have posted many times "We have a GOD who delights in impossibilities"! Sometimes impossibilities require a "MIRACLE"!!!
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