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fifteen years Dr Robert Schuller's secretary Lois battled cancer, and
for every one of them she served God faithfully. Schuller writes: 'I
don't think I ever met anyone more courageous. Some days she was so
ill... getting out of bed took all the strength she had! She'd
deliberately fall out of bed, walk on her hands and knees to the
bathroom, reach for the sink and pull herself up. She'd force herself to
get dressed, stumble into the kitchen, drink some water, eat a dry
piece of toast, search for her purse, and walk to the door. Perspiration
pouring off her forehead, she'd look at her husband and say, "Well,
Ralph, I think I can make it now." Then she'd get into her car and drive
to church. She was always there before me, and when I arrived with my
usual greeting, "Good morning, how are you?" she'd always smile and say,
"Great!" I never knew until after her funeral what she went through...
Only God can give you that kind of courage.' The Bible says, 'From
his... unlimited resources [God] will empower you with inner strength
through his Spirit.' There are many ways to say it, but none more
eloquent than the hymnist Annie Johnson Flint, who put it like this:
'When we have exhausted our store of endurance; when our strength has
failed ere the day is half-done; When we reach the end of our hoarded
resources our Father's full giving has only begun. His love has no
limit... His grace has no measure... His power no boundary known unto
men. For out of His infinite riches in Jesus, He giveth, and giveth, and
giveth again.' |
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