It’s been a “season of sickness” for many. Others have been spared from this sickness, but we’ve all been ill at various times in our lives, right?  No one enjoys being sick…but, did you know that a time of sickness can be a time of teaching, and therefore, a help and a blessing, from the hand of God?  It’s true. So if you’re enduring such a time, or when you do in the future, think of this…

Proverbs 18:14 (NLT)

The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit?

1.    Sickness helps to remind men of death.

2.    Sickness helps to make men think seriously of God, and their souls,

       and the world to come.

3.    Sickness helps to soften men’s hearts, and teach them wisdom.

4.    Sickness helps to level and humble us.

5.    Sickness helps to try men’s religion, of what sort it is.

                                                                                              ~ J.C. Ryle

The Lord bless you and keep you….

Pastor Dave