Eternal Perspective

December 26th, 2022

God has been so faithful and has continued to show us his nearness and faithfulness throughout this season. Zeke’s first Christmas was spent in the hospital but he is alive and doing well and continues to improve. He is fully extubated and has been weaning off his medications. He still has a ways to go but we are so grateful for the progress. He continues to get follow ups for the clots in his legs and neck and will get an ultrasound Wednesday to determine their size. His right ankle and foot have started to swell and so we are continuing to pray that the clots are reducing in size. His last surgery wound is healing nicely and will get evaluated in the next couple of days.

This season has been filled with ups and downs and some dark moments but through it all God has carried us. My dear sister in Christ, Heather shared a prayer that her sweet daughter Hope prayed years ago….“But Lord, if You have a different way...even if it's harder...if it will bring you more glory, do it your way! Because if you come back tomorrow Jesus, then what does it matter! Amen!"

This resonated with me and so encouraged me. Heather went on to share that if Jesus comes back tomorrow, what will all this matter, all we can do is get through today, and maybe tomorrow the best thing we could hope or pray for will happen...Christ will return and set all things in this broken and cursed world right! No more suffering, no more tears, no more disease or broken bodies, just pure joy in the presence of our Saviour forevermore!

So, in light of that eternal perspective, if you have a different way, God, even if it's harder...if it will bring you more glory we surrender to Your will!

I pray this encourages you as it has us in this season of life we have found ourselves in. Ezekiel by God’s grace is alive and getting better. He still has a ways to go in his recovery but he is far better than he was when this all began 6 weeks ago. Having endured 3 surgeries and 2 cath lab procedures he is still fighting.

2 Corinthians 4:7-18

Treasure in Jars of Clay

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.

Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”