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“ICU.”
Many instantly recognize those letters and know that they stand for
“Intensive Care Unit.”
And many – if not most – have either spent time in ICU or have
waited on friends and loved ones who need the specialized medical care
found in this unit of the hospital. Turn
your attention for a moment to the waiting room where friends and family
wait for news of the well-being of their loved one.
Consider the insights of Wes Seelinger in his experience in the ICU
waiting room: “I
have spent long hours in the intensive care waiting room … watching
with anguished people … listening to urgent questions: ‘Will my
husband make it?
Will my child walk again?
How do you live without your companion of thirty years?’ “The
intensive care waiting room is different from any other place in the world
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and the people who wait are different.
They can’t do enough for each other.
No one is rude.
The distinctions of race and class melt away.
A person is a father first, a black man second.
The garbage man loves his wife as much as the university professor
loves his.
Everyone knows that loving someone else is what life is all
about.” This
is true, whether or not you are in the ICU waiting room!
Jesus was asked, “Which is the greatest commandment?” He
answered: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
all your soul, and with all your mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as
yourself” (Matthew 22:34-39).
Life is all about loving God and loving others; that’s the way
God designed it. “We love because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). “In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:9-10). God loves us so much that He wants to save us and add us to His eternal family to live with Him forever in heaven. His
eternal family is the church – God’s ICU, HIS Intensive Care Unit! You
can be saved from your sins and added to God’s family (Acts
2:41,47) God provides special care in His ICU, the church. Won’t YOU submit to Him and become a part of His eternal family today? David A. Sargent, Minister Church of Christ at Creekwood To Subscribe to "Living Water" send a blank e-mail to:
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