SOMETHING BETTER
“For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name” (Hebrews 6:10).
IS THERE A BAD HABIT IN YOUR LIFE that you have had a hard time overcoming? Some cherished sin? If your answer to either one of these questions is in the affirmative, the experience or Benjamin, written about by Mark Finley and Steven Mosley, might be able to help you.
Benjamin had traveled all over Europe in search of cures for diseases that existed only in his mind, but without any result. The thing was that in one of his many consultations, he ran into a Christian physician, Dr. Paul Tournier, who perceived that Benjamin’s health problems were not physical but spiritual in nature. Of course, the doctor did not tell him that. Instead, he asked him to tell him about his life.
Among other things, Benjamin told him that when his son was still very young, his mother took him to visit his grandparents abroad. When the time came to return home, Benjamin asked his wife to return alone and leave the child with his grandparents. She did that, but the idea could not have been worse because the child became ill and soon died. This tragedy, in Dr. Tournier’s opinion, marked the beginning of Benjamin’s health problems. Now, what could he tell this poor man to put him on the road to health?
He bluntly told him that two paths stretched out before him. First, the one he had followed so far and which had kept him going from clinic to clinic. Second, the one that the Lord Jesus Christ invited him to take. A path that he would never walk alone because Jesus would always be with him.
“I want to choose the path of the Lord Jesus Christ,” Benjamin saint, “but I will need help.” That was how Benjamin began to study the Word and pray. As he did so, he talked less and less about his health problems. The day came when he decided to do “some works of love,” starting with his own wife: he asked her for forgiveness for having hurt her, told her about God’s love, and proposed that they renew their relationship.
As Finley and Mosley wrote, Benjamin “became a healthy adult.’ What had been the key to his transformation? His decision to do “some works of love” placed him on the path of victory; the path on which we overcome evil and good; in which we replace the old life, old habits, with a new life. This is a good day to replace the worst with the best; a new life in which Jesus is the center and in which we do “some works of love” for the glory of His name.
Dear heavenly Father, what loving deed can I undertake today that will glorify Your name?
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Taken from: Devotional Readings for Adults 2022
“GREAT IS OUR GOD!”
From: FERNANDO ZABALA
Colaboradores: Xiomara Perdomo & Angelica Cuate