I had a wild ride yesterday. I woke up feeling completely normal (and with a voice, too!). As I was getting dressed to go to class, I started feeling a little bit off, but it was nothing to really worry about, so I headed to class, anyway. Within 15 minutes, I was curled up on the floor in the bathroom in pain, along with lots of other highly unpleasant side effects - I'll leave it to your imagination to fill in the blanks.
The rest of the morning passed in a blur. Korean hospitals, I have learned, are not any more pleasant than American ones. So while I was sitting in the waiting room, I started thinking about some of the names of the Lord that I know. I love studying the names of the Lord. They have always been a special source of comfort for me. Names are so incredibly personal, so intimate, so undeniably you....I feel like learning God's names just draws me so much closer to Him than simply studying about Him.
So anyway, the name that came to my mind yesterday morning was Jehovah Rophe, the God who heals. Yesterday was really scary. It was not the mere fact that I was sick; but rather, the speed and intensity with which it came on. Being in a foreign country with an unintelligible language and in a strange hospital didn't help matters, I'm sure.
But God is Jehovah Rophe, our Healer. He does not want us to be sick or in pain. That was what I clung to, when I was sick and scared in a strange land. The Lord our God loves us beyond anything we could ever imagine. So when life's got you down, remember that He cares for you....always.
22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.) 24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” 25 Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink.
There the LORD issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test. 26 He said, “If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.”
27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.
The rest of the morning passed in a blur. Korean hospitals, I have learned, are not any more pleasant than American ones. So while I was sitting in the waiting room, I started thinking about some of the names of the Lord that I know. I love studying the names of the Lord. They have always been a special source of comfort for me. Names are so incredibly personal, so intimate, so undeniably you....I feel like learning God's names just draws me so much closer to Him than simply studying about Him.
So anyway, the name that came to my mind yesterday morning was Jehovah Rophe, the God who heals. Yesterday was really scary. It was not the mere fact that I was sick; but rather, the speed and intensity with which it came on. Being in a foreign country with an unintelligible language and in a strange hospital didn't help matters, I'm sure.
But God is Jehovah Rophe, our Healer. He does not want us to be sick or in pain. That was what I clung to, when I was sick and scared in a strange land. The Lord our God loves us beyond anything we could ever imagine. So when life's got you down, remember that He cares for you....always.
Exodus 15:22-27
22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.) 24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” 25 Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink.
There the LORD issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test. 26 He said, “If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.”
27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.
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