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GOD’S TRANSFORMING TOUCH!
Updated: Jan 28
Friends, the mission of Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES is to provide men and women with words of Encouragement and Hope, as well
as empowering believers in Jesus Christ, worldwide, to recognize, experience, and celebrate their oneness with all others who know Jesus as Saviour and Lord, regardless of denomination, church fellowship, or historic tradition.
Today’s Message of Encouragement from Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES
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(Stories of Real People, Real Events, Real Places)
They provide
Spiritual FOOD FOR THOUGHT
AND HELP PEOPLE FIND HOPE
Ron Bainbridge.
Editor:
Don't follow me! Follow Jesus and receive God's grace. Jesus declared, “I am the way, I am the truth and the life.
The only way to the Father is through me.”
(John 10:10; 14:6)
GOD’S TRANSFORMING TOUCH!
Friend, Macrina Wiederkehr is a gifted writer whose inspirational words have touched the lives of thousands of people worldwide. However, Macrina may never have helped so many people, or would not even be alive today—were it not for a remarkable person who dramatically touched her in the first hour of her life.
You see, when Macrina was born, the doctor thought she was dead. He pronounced her dead. However, a very special person in the delivery room believed in tiny Macrina. That person was one of the nurses.
In her autobiography, Macrina Wiederkehr wrote: “My own birth into this world began with a proclamation of death. I was proclaimed dead. . .set aside as not living. The nurse, I am told, took me, worked with me, and believed in the spark of life in me. In essence, she convinced me that I could breathe.”
Well, friend, that tiny baby responded to the warm embrace of a compassionate nurse. As a result, little Macrina survived and flourished.
Years later, as she reflected on this transforming experience, she wrote the following words:
“The doctor placed me aside and announced the sad news of my death, right in the middle of my birth. But God was good and gave someone enough hope to believe in me. She leaned forward, believed in darkness, what some folks refused to believe in the light. She believed in me; and she held me as though the stirring of the eternal had just begun, as though the mystery within was just being born. And the joy of it is: She was right! And because of her hope in me I live!
Friend, I believe this dramatic story underscores a fact so obvious, that we are often disposed to overlook it. You see, no one ever comes into this world on his or her own strength. In fact, each of you who are reading this message today is alive because of someone else’s compassionate concern. However, this is not only true of our first day on this planet! It’s also true for most of our life.
We human beings cannot survive into adulthood without thousands of caring gestures being performed on our behalf. Sometimes we notice them. Often, we don’t! But the fact remains: each of us lives on planet earth today because of the loving intervention of others in our life.
Friend, there is an important lesson we can learn from Macrina Wiederkehr’s near tragedy. It is that we can enjoy renewal in our lives today because God’s touch reaches us through the medium of fellow human beings.
Macrina Wiederkehr, in her autobiography, wrote: “But God was good and gave someone else enough HOPE to believe in me.”
Friend, God’s loving care is often channeled to us through others who meet us during our lifetime. By the same token, we do the same for others. Because after we accept God’s HOPE in us, we have an opportunity to agree to become a living channel of the Comforter.
Perhaps the following words from the pen of Macrina Wiederkehr might help you to better understand what I am trying to convey about God’s Transforming Touch. Macrina writes:
“Could it be true
That some folks die
Because our hope is too small
To bring give them life?
It is good to remember
We do not give birth to ourselves.
We give birth to others
By believing in that first,
Small spark of life,
The spark we can barely see.
It is called HOPE.”
Friend, none of us can be human alone! We need to be closely related to God and enjoy meaningful, fulfilling relationships with others.
“The best and most beautiful things in the
The world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.”
(Helen Keller)
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“Love is the only force capable of
Transforming
An enemy into a friend.”
Martin Luther King, Jr, (1929 - 1968)
Nature of God
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