Genesis 22:1-14: God is Jehovah-rapha

Sunday, October 16, 2005

God is Jehovah-rapha

i couldn't help but kept tinking abt the k1 boy who hurt himself at sch last fri. i've never seen so much blood gushing out of a kid...images of him sitting at the playground floor, with blood constantly coming down his face, soaking his uniform, teachers applying pressure on his wound to try stop the bleeding, flooded my mind the whole time i was in kor's car today...i tried not to tink abt it, but i just couldn't...and i really don't know why. the boy was bleeding non-stop, we called the ambulance...he was brought into the fellowship hall, and tt was when i held on to him, trying to comfort him...telling him tt everything's gonna be fine cos God would be taking care of him...as i fought hard to hold back my tears, i begged for God to be merciful to him and stop the bleeding. when i opened my eyes, i saw my colleague's eyes well-up with tears too...and at tt instant, one of the teachers went "it has stopped bleeding!".

wanna testify of God's goodness...m really so grateful to God for His mighty hands on tt young boy. if God hadn't stopped the bleeding, he might have bled to death. m not exaggerating...there was a great deal of blood. wanna thank God also for giving the doctor wisdom to decide not to give him stitches as he was already traumatised enough. wow-wee, technology sure is advance, there's this thing called the tissue glue leh... o.O anyway, thank God too, tt the doctor was understanding enough to allow us to come back and pay later cos we forgot to take our wallets along! indeed, God is the Great Physician, Who is able to heal...and m reminded tt we are His children, and altho we're as vulnerable as tt little boy, our Heavenly Father's there to care for & protect us. God is Jehovah-rapha (the God Who heals)!

2 Comments:

At 11:49 am, Blogger Quinton said...

how's the boy now?

 
At 10:36 pm, Blogger gwyneth said...

by God's grace, he's fine now~ very brave boy, looking very cheerful. saw him singing away during practice for concert yesterday/today. he even asked if he could have the bandage removed by this friday! :) thank God, too, for his understanding parents who didn't blame his form teacher.his mother even said she's very glad her son's in galilee kindergarten, grateful for how we gave him immediate treatment...when the teacher apologised to her, she said "accidents can happen anytime". well, comforting, isn't it? and it's all because we have a sovereign God Who's always in control! thanks for asking, nelson!

 

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