“HE SHALL STRENGTHEN THINE HEART!”

 

Psalms 27:14                 (KJV)

“WAIT ON THE LORD: be of good courage, and “HE SHALL STRENGTHEN THINE HEART”: WAIT, I SAY, ON THE LORD.” 

There have been MANY times where I have had to TRUST in this passage of Scripture, especially in my “busyness” following the Brain Hemorrhage!  But this morning during my “quiet time” my EYES were OPENED to SEE things from a different perspective!!

GOD had to place me into a seventeen day coma in July of 2007 to disengage me from “this world” and all of its entrapments.  It wasn’t as if HE couldn’t do it in another “quicker” scenario, BUT HE used a two and a half week PAUSE to MAKE me SEE precisely WHO was IN CONTROL….OF EVERYTHING!!!  

ALMIGHTY GOD, the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES, “could have” simply SPOKEN, as HE did during CREATION, and I would have been “HEALED”!  Yet HE ELECTED for me to SLOWLY heal the brain leak over an extended period of time to magnify HIS power and CONTROL, not only of my life, but over EVERYTHING!!!

Fast forward ten years later and GOD was WORKING……yet AGAIN!  A “brain hemorrhage” was taken care of, so HE decided that a quadruple bypass surgery would be HIS next achievement!  Four days after surgery I was released from the hospital!  During my first post-surgery “check up”, the heart surgeon exclaimed that my heart was VERY strong and that I should live to be in my 90’s!  

The CREATOR certainly didn’t need “a dirt dumb country boy” to display HIS CONTROL OVER EVERYTHING, but HE DID, and without consulting me!!!  I am SO UNWORTHY, and HE IS SO MERCIFUL!!!  All I can say is that “HE SHALL STRENGTHEN THINE HEART” might not be what my heart surgeon was referring to, but I AM SO BLESSED to have HIM ABIDING IN my life….FOR HIS GLORY!!!