Don't Look Down

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Now let's get to today's episode. And I go back to what happened in the hospital room with my wife when this wound opened up. I mean, it was. graphic. Ten to twelve inches, four inches wide on your entire thigh.

It called. Dehist is, that's the word, a medical term. It dehisted. and I I helped her sit up. Ah the surgeon had taken the sutures out.

and left, Gracie was laying down, and after she left, I helped her sit up. And that's when it just opened up.

Now, for those of you surgeons and nurses in this audience, you may not get worked up about that sort of thing. I studied music.

Okay, so let me just click. clearly communicate to you. I was reminded vividly of why I'm not a surgeon. But my wife needed me to help her stay calm in this thing. and not fret.

And I grabbed her hand, and she was breathing very hard, and she was really. struggling. It was on the verge of panic, and I said, Don't look down Just look at me. And then I started singing with her. In my life, Lord, be glorified, be glorified and she started singing with me.

Now I have a team of nurses and then surgical residents came in there. I mean, there were a lot of people in there. And Gracie starts singing on her own then, In my leg, Lord be glorified to day. That's extraordinary, isn't it? I was stunned.

They were stunned. They couldn't believe it. They didn't stop working, but they couldn't believe it that she wasn't screaming, she wasn't panicking, she wasn't yelling, and she wasn't anything. She was asking God to be glorified in her leg, and it was laid open. This is what the scripture speaks to for us as believers: that we can exhibit this.

to the point of the world marveling. At that level of calmness and clarity and focus in the midst of hardship. She wasn't thinking about tomorrow. I promise you, she was not thinking about the next day. She wasn't thinking about.

Our taxes. She wasn't thinking about what we were going to get at the grocery store. She wasn't thinking about anything. Her leg was laid open and she was saying, God be glorified in this. This is not unique to my wife.

This is available to all of us. It is available to every one of us who put our hope and our faith and trust in Christ. Around midnight Paul and Silas were singing hymns while in prison after being beaten. This wasn't around midnight for us. It was about eight thirty in the morning.

But Gracie was singing a hymn while her leg was l laid open, and that's on top of being in the hospital for months. And the medical teams all around her marveled at this. Why?

Well, they hadn't seen that before. That's that's the first reason. But but that is not what you normally expect for something like this. They expect people to panic and people to freak out and people to scream and rage and despair and all these kinds of things. They do not expect people to glorify God.

and ask him to be glorified in it. Yet, this is what we are called to do as believers. It is so mind-boggling to the world. It cannot process this. Jesus said, My peace I give to you, not as the world gives.

The world says, You are at peace when you have everything you want or think you want. Jesus says, You have me. Yeah.