A Quick Note on Laura

We had to put Laura in the hospital last week on Monday evening. It turned out that she had diverticulitis. You go to the hospital to get well but sometimes other things can happen and that's what went on next. The nurses hung a new antibiotic for Laura Tuesday morning, she had a severe reaction. We came close to loosing her. I went back up to the hospital at 2AM she had been placed in ICU. After about 12 hours she was able to go to the step down unit and then to a regular room the following day. They reluctantly released here Friday evening and we went back home.

She is doing so much better now. If things go well we can avoid surgery.

This is just a thought for you to consider. Each of us is not guaranteed one more moment. It is only by God's grace that we live. How are you living your life? How are you treating or mistreating others? You may not have tomorrow to set things right, to love one you have wronged. If you fail to live as Christ and to love your brother or sister it is SIN. God put it this way:

James 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." 14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 15 Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that." 16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

If you have trusted in Christ for salvation, does your life show the Spirit at work conforming you to the image of Christ? Do people see Christ in you or do you have to tell them you are a Christian? You have an obligation to live your life to the praise of God's glory. This life is not to be spent on your fleshly indulgence. You are to love the brethren. You have no right to withhold forgiveness and love from another do to perceived injustices or hurt feelings. And you may not have tomorrow to set things right. You have been given liberty from sin so that you may serve righteousness not yourself.

2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.