Miracles Run in My Family
22 February 2010My mom’s life is a series of miracles. As a baby she was rushed to the hospital not breathing. The doctors gave up on her and pronounced her dead but the nurse and my grandfather didn’t give up. They managed to dislodge a pea she had sucked down her wind pipe and get her breathing. Since that day so long ago she has experienced so many miracles as to be uncountable and today she had another one.
Mom went in the hospital for surgery this morning. The purpose of the surgery was to repair a hole in her bladder but while they were in they planned to go ahead and also repair a hernia that was really giving her some trouble as well as one or two other things.
You have to understand that my mom is not a good candidate for surgery. Today was the 38th major surgery of her life. Because of all these surgeries she has a lot of scare tissue that makes doctors reluctant to operate on her unless it is absolutely necessary. She also has a lot of health problems that make her less than a good candidate for surgery. So it takes a lot for her doctors to decide to cut her open. They would not have done so today if not for the hole in her bladder that was confirmed several weeks ago through a cystoscope.
She was in surgery about three hours this morning and all went very well. It went so well, in fact, that they did not have to do anything to her bladder. According the surgeon, her bladder had spontaneously healed itself! He said he’d never seen anything like it. He could see where the hole had been just a few weeks ago but it was completely healed. Of course, since they were already in, they went ahead and did the other repairs they would never had opened her up for without the hole in her bladder.
This surgery was planned but not scheduled for almost two months. Indeed, it drug on for so long that I was beginning to become annoyed about it. I could not understand why, if this was so serious and had to be done, it was taking so long for it to actually happen. The answer to that became clear to me today. Here is what I believe.
God knew the doctors would not operate on mom for the hernia or the other problems alone but He, in His infinite wisdom, wanted them to anyway. Now He could have done any number of things, including simply healing her other problems, but He had other plans. He allowed this hole in the bladder to cause this surgery to take place. But He also caused the delays to give her bladder time to heal first, which does not happen under any circumstances the surgeon was aware of. The result of all this was mom got the other problems repaired and God was glorified because of the clearly miraculous healing of her bladder.
Skeptics will come up with all manner of objections. Why didn’t God just heal everything? Why didn’t He do something else entirely. They will claim I am delusional or worse. But the fact is, we can never fathom all the reasons God has for doing what He does. I don’t know why He didn’t just heal everything but I know that what He actually did and what actually happened brought glory and honor to His name and that is what it’s all about! Praise be to God and God alone!
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