Amber and I had our appointment this morning with the MS specialist. The appointment went well. As we suspected, we learned a little bit and gained some clarity regarding my condition but we still do not have a firm diagnosis. The doctor showed me my MRI scans for the first time so I actually got to see the lesion in my brain. I’m not certain why but in some way it was really helpful to actually see a picture of it.
Posts Tagged: Sanctification
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Apr 11
Falling Into a Greater Love…
As I lay in bed wide awake after only about three hours of sleep tonight I began to talk with God. Nights have become a frustrating time for me. Tonight, as I was praying, my frustrations threatened to overtake me. I began to feel like this ordeal was meant to punish me in some way rather than serve to purify me and Glorify God and show him as worthy above all things. I began to plead with God that he would turn from bringing this affliction on me. I prayed and prayed for sleepiness to return to my body. I only became more alert. Disheartened I felt the Lord calling me out of bed to be with Him. So I rose and here I am.
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Feb 11
The Good News
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel for it is the power of God for salvation…For in it the righteous of God is revealed.” (Romans 1:16-17)
It seems that the “gospel” is first and foremost an event, or news about an event. It is the telling of something that took place in time, in history that revealed the Love and Righteousness of God. As one of the early church fathers wisely quipped, “God became what we are that we might become what he is.” Too often this gets lost–God became man (Phil 2: 6-11), bore our condemnation, died, and was raised–and the resurrection becomes a general philosophy or idea. We who believe would of course never say that explicitly, but I fear it is implicitly expressed in our struggle with sin and applying the work of Christ on the cross to our specific sins in repentance.