In God's hands

My wife is now in Hospital and tomorrow will have the procedure done to her liver. We believe she is in the capable hands of the specialists and certainly in the hands of the Almighty God who is present everywhere.
Paul wrote: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God” (Philippians 4:6). Certainly we can pray for healing, and ask others to do so as well on our behalf. We know God hears our requests and answers our prayers according to his merciful will and purpose in our lives.

Serendipity

God gives us pleasant surprises to bless us. Both of us were home and my wife was talking about her forthcoming visit to hospital for some procedure. concerning liver – not a very pleasant subject.

In fact on that same week I shall be at another hospital to undergo further extensive tests concerning my eyes. I shall have my cataract surgery soon after.

We do have very good medical facilities and doctors in Singapore. People from other countries come to Singapore to seek medical treatment.

Suddenly we received a phone call. Four friends of ours were in the vicinity and decided to visit us. One couple – the husband was my classmate and his wife was my wife’s classmate in Raffles Institution and Raffles Girls’ School respectively in the early ‘fifties.

Another couple the wife was my wife’s classmate. What a lovely time we had as we recalled the good old days. They are all evangelical Christians and before we parted sang “Great is Thy faithfulness” followed by a time of prayer.

We also had another visitor, a retired nurse and former salvationist. What a wonderful time we had spending time together reminiscing the good old days when we were in our teens and now all in eighties eighties! Truly I can only describe the afternoon in one word – serendipity. I believe God has arranged this fellowship to cheer us up.

What a work the Lord has done
By his saving grace;
Let us praise him, every one,
In his holy place.
He has saved us gloriously,
Led us onward faithfully,
Yet he promised we should see
Even greater things.

Chorus
Greater things! Greater things!
Give us faith, O Lord, we pray,
Faith for greater things.
2.
Sanctify thy name, O Lord,
By thy people here,
For the altar or the sword!
Save us from our fear
When the battle rages fast;
Help us in the fiery blast,
Let us not be overcast,
Prove thy greater things.
3.
Every comrade, Lord, we pray,
Thou wilt richly bless;
Lead us forth into the fray,
One in holiness,
One in faith and harmony,
One in perfect charity;
Then we know that we shall see
Even greater things.
Albert Orsborn (1886-1967)