BBD 09.12.03 Pulling It All Out
Posted by: wrather <wrather@...>
since coming home from the hospital. I made it through the sermon but my
blood pressure dropped to 75/51 and heart rate when up to 105. In a few
hours it gradually came back up but I did not preach Sunday night or even go
to the service. Also my lower left colon was hurting for the first time
since returning home. The blood pressure problem may have been because of
medications which I have now stopped but am very concerned about the pain.
Feeling much better today. Please pray that God will heal my colon without
surgery. Thank you!!
The Burning Bush Devotional
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09.12.03
Pulling It All Out
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity
and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has
rejected you from being king." - 1 Samuel 15:23.
As I described previously I was all tied down with wires and tubes. A
surgeon had come and installed an IV portal in my chest and all seemed to be
going well until about 11:00 P.M. when I woke up or semi woke up needing to
go to the bathroom. Thinking I was at home, I got out of bed (With my wife
telling me not to.) and headed for where I thought the bathroom was located.
I never made it because of all the wires and tubes and pulled out my portal.
As a result, it took another couple of hours to get everything cleaned up
and I no longer had a portal. So, they brought in some people from the lab
to try to find a vein but seemed to have great problems finding one. It was
probably 3:00 A.M. before things calmed down. Dr. Zuerker said the next day
that I had made an "F" in Portal Management. My wife thought that it was the
sleep medication along with the pain medication that brought it all about.
Maybe it was just that I was in a strange place and very sick.
The next day about noon, the surgeon came back and reinstalled the portal on
the opposite side of my chest. This time she put in some extra stitches and
went deeper. I paid for that when they took the stitches and the portal out
on the last day of my hospitalization. Because of my "F" in Portal
Management, it was over 12 hours before they could resume the IV s at the
same level as previous. It most likely caused an additional 12 hours of
hospitalization and as I already mentioned more pain.
That is exactly what happens to us when we rebel against our God. Our
rebellion causes us pain and causes a delay in God's blessings and in God's
will being brought about in our lives. It has been said that, "sin will keep
you longer than you want to stay, sin, will take farther than you want to go
and it will cost you more than you want to pay.
King Saul was disobedient in doing what God wanted him to do. He was to wait
for the prophet Samuel to come and make an offering before taking on the
enemy. But Saul got tired of waiting and made the offering himself. It was a
very costly mistake, which resulted in the kingdom, being wrenched away from
Saul and given to David. This rebellious act caused much pain to Saul, his
family, and those loyal to him. It also caused a delay in the kingdom being
brought about in its ultimate manifestation.
We have choices and have been given a free will. We can choose as Adam and
Eve and King Saul chose to do in doing what we know God does not want us to
do. We have that choice. We can pull it all out. But it will cost us. If we
rebel against God by doing what we want to do instead of what God wants us
to do it will increase the misery quotient of our lives. Our rebellion will
make the night longer. Our rebellion will hurt other people besides
ourselves usually those we love the most.
Before you pull it all out in rebellion against God, it might be a good idea
to count the cost.
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