‘No-o-o-o, not again,’ I screamed inside of me. I can hear my voice at first but it gets diminishing within minutes.
It’s going to happen, going by my instinct, I could sense it. Yet there’s hardly anything I could do except praying for me and my family. My children cried I can still feel them their soft hands on my hands prevailing for their daddy before the Lord.
But I was captivated; it seized me!
One or two pictures taken that day reminded me of the compassion of God. The pictures featured my two children wearing odd dresses, although for a short time, as we don’t have enough time to bring a spare cloth. [May be I will take it back after few days…] The days were bitter.
Well, let me put it this way:
It was the month of May last year, around my birthday, when I was rushed to the ER after years of living a joyous life. My wife had to arrange and called our local cab service near us. With the help of good neighbors who brought me down from our third floor flat to the cab, which drives us to the ER.
Our children, with no one to stay behind, are with us in the cab. It was a long drive for them which they’d often talked about it till now. Since their father was in an unconscious condition, they prevailed throughout the journey.
Once we reached the ER where their aunt is working, she took them home taking good care of them. It was there that the photos with my boy in his aunt’s dresses were taken as she was alone at the time as well.
The photos now bring back the pain, the love, and the distress situation of the bygone days. I hardly wanted to put photos of my families or relatives here, but it was a good reminder of how the Lord has put together our urgent needs so I put this as an exceptional case.
Bitter Days as Reminder:
Bitter days are a reminder of life’s purpose when we seem to get lost in the tide. It makes us wanted to live to the greatest extent joyfully for God and for people nearby us. Bitter days are those days we’ve often talked about with a sigh of relief.
Songs of any kind – praise, prayer, love songs, etc. , are filled with in-depth comfort when it resulted from the face of adversity, love loss, grieving, and many more. In our normal style of living we tend to limit, but not all of us, our thoughts and approached towards understanding God and his purposes.
The day, we forget our roots and what the Lord has done for us in our journey of life, would be that day we lost the source of contentment. Contentment comes from the Lord but not from the material things we acquired. Contentment is way beyond the acquisition of mankind.
Restored Breakdown:
Living here on earth, we are prone to physical breakdown and spiritual breakdown. With advanced technology on the rise, we are able to care for our physical health at some level although for the rich only. The have-nots, aplenty in parts of the world, are aplenty who have meager or no access to proper medical care. They are totally depending on the mercies of the Lord, should they believe it.
However, the Lord our God is the God of restoration. His work is the work of restoration although mankind is revolting in nature against the dogma of restoration. Falling sick, sinning is the ways of mankind and its control.
We lack the wisdom to see the spiritual side of us. It simply leads us to spiritual breakdown. This breakdown is supposed to teach us a lesson because our God is merciful and full of grace. For a person who trusts and has faith in the Lord, He looked after them as He knows our needs.
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Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the LORD delivers them in times of trouble. The LORD protects and preserves them— they are counted among the blessed in the land— he does not give them over to the desire of their foes. The LORD sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness. (Psalms 41:1-3)
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. (Mark 2:17) It is for us, we who are vulnerable to spiritual breakdown He has come. He restores our heart and gives us rest. In His presence, we are able to worship, commune, and prevail for others.
As long as the Lord is with me whom shall I fear? John 15:7 says, If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. Abiding in Him will turn our bitter moments into sweet moments, which would linger on in our hearts causing us to live a life filled with praise.
