[The LORD] heals all your diseases.

Psalm 103:3b

Last year was medically challenging. I had five heart surgeries, four pacemakers installed, pneumonia, bronchitis, bacterial infection, muscle atrophy, and COVID-19. Treating the bacterial infection required 4,000 milliliters of antibiotics daily for two weeks. As a result, I received physical, occupational, and speech therapy. I had to learn a new way to breathe to rebuild the muscles in my voice box that had gone into atrophy.

Yes, there were times I wondered if I would come home ever again. But I never lost hope that I was in the hands of the great Physician who was partnering with all of the medical specialists to make me well again. My times were in the hands of my Savior. I developed an acrostic that reminds me of the hope I have in the power, mercy, and grace of God, who is able to heal all our diseases. It goes like this: Help Over Problems Expected.

Jerrold Lloyd Nichols
Fort Wayne, IN

Dear God, I will need an eternity to thank and praise You with angels and all the company of heaven. Amen.

Reflect: Take a personal inventory of how you are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Read: John 9-11