This morning I was inspired, rebuked and challenged by
reading from Ministry of Healing. What a wonderful book to read!
“All around us are afflicted souls. Here and there,
everywhere, we may find them. Let us search out these suffering ones and speak
a word in season to comfort their hearts. Let us ever be channels through which
shall flow the refreshing waters of compassion” MH158.
I realized that I am privileged to be spared from having to
search for those suffering ones. Lord, you placed me in the infirmary of those
who are discouraged, torn by burdens, pain and hopelessness. Devil is triumphant
seeing those poor children of yours entangled in chaos, disease, infirmities, facing
death. Help me to ever be the channel through which You can reveal the
sweetness of Your character. Help me ever to be that there, for to you reveal
your compassion and be a vessel through which you will lift the fallen and bring
hope to the hopeless, healing to the ill, courage to the discouraged, strength to
the helpless.
And thank you for the encouragement and promise You giving
me: “There is no limit to the usefulness of one who, putting self aside, makes
room for the working of the Holy Spirit upon his heart and lives a life wholly consecrated
to God. All who consecrate body, soul and spirit to His service will be
constantly receiving a new endowment of physical, mental, and spiritual power”
MH 159.