Written by
MARY PETERSON
05/04/2018
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“You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.” Psalm 139:2 (NIV)
You never know what
your day will bring when you work in healthcare.
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When I take care of
patients, I don’t really expect to see anything extraordinary from God. I’m a
nursing assistant, and my job is to aid the nurse in caring for patients
recovering from joint surgery. After all, it’s healthcare.
One night, the evening
shift is going as usual, and patients are all doing well, but the workload
stacks up in the surgery center across the hall. It’s unusual for them to call
me for help this late in the evening, but that’s exactly where my night takes a
turn.
Feeling a bit put-out
about having to leave my comfort zone, I roll up my sleeves, take a deep breath
and begin. My first task is to bring a patient down in a wheelchair to surgery
pick-up at the back of the building.
We make it down to the
vehicle, and I wish them well. Turning to push the wheelchair back to the door,
I notice a man walking toward me from his station wagon piled with linen.
“Excuse me, ma’am,” he
says, “I need to find out where to deliver these blankets.”
As I explain where to
deliver the load, I consider how strange this situation is. It just so happens I’m the only person in
the building who knows what linen
we ordered and where to bring it.
In a thankful spirit,
he tells me, “I whispered a prayer that God would send someone to help me
because I didn’t know where to go.”
Well, guess what? God sent me at this
exact moment in this exact place where he needed the help.
Friend, God sees us
and knows our situations — just like He knows the predicament the linen
delivery man faced. Not only does He see it, but God cares about it. As He
reminds us in Psalm 139:2, “You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts
from afar.”
God cares enough about
the delivery man’s prayer to pull me out of my normal duties and bring me to
surgery pick-up in the back of the building. Just so I can help him find his way.
Do
you think God cares just as much about you and me?
God is not distant,
but close. He reaches down as we lift our eyes up to Him. He is our help and
our deliverer who moves mountains (or people) as we whisper a prayer.
The way God moves is
mysterious and is certainly not at our every whim. But earnest prayers are dear
to God’s heart, just like the whisper of a daughter to her loving dad.
That night I found
wonder in the fact that God moves in our lives when we least expect it and that
we get to be a part of His plan! I wonder what He will do next!
Heavenly Father, as I whisper to You now, I know You are here
with me. Please use me for Your purpose. Help me remember that You always hear
me when I pray. In Your mysterious, wonderful way, let me be moved by You
today. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Truth For Today
Psalm
116:1-2, “I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.
Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.” (NIV)
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