Topics:<\/b> Discernment; Healing; Persistence; Spiritual Perception; Wisdom<\/p>\n
Reference:<\/b> Matthew 16:3<\/p>\n
I was working as a nurse in a busy emergency room. We had a regular visitor, Billy, a cute two-year-old with freckles and tousled blond hair. For a year Billy had been in and out of the ER with what the doctors diagnosed as asthma.<\/p>\n
The source of the illness was a mystery to the medical staff. Billy hadn\u2019t had asthma as an infant, there wasn\u2019t a family history of asthma, and there weren\u2019t obvious signs of allergies that would cause it. But the symptoms were asthmatic. Sometimes we treated Billy and sent him home; other times he would end up in the pediatrics ICU because his breathing was so labored.<\/p>\n
This continued for about a year, and the staff grew fond of Billy. He came yet another day with breathing difficulties, and one of the medical interns decided, on a lark, to look up Billy\u2019s nose. He found a black jelly bean that Billy\u2019s brother had put there a year before. What came out with the jelly bean wasn\u2019t pretty.<\/p>\n
We had treated Billy for the wrong condition for almost a year. In light of that circumstance, I put signs on the walls of the emergency room that said, \u201cLook for jelly beans.\u201d When you\u2019re working in the ER, properly diagnosing a problem can be the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n
\u2014Nancy Ortberg, in the sermon \u201cMatters of the Heart,\u201d Willow Creek Church Seeds Tape Ministry, South Barrington, Illinois<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Discernment; Healing; Persistence; Spiritual Perception; Wisdom Reference: Matthew 16:3 I was working as a nurse in a busy emergency room. We had a regular visitor, Billy, a cute two-year-old with freckles and tousled blond hair. For a year Billy had been in and out of the ER with what the doctors diagnosed as asthma. … Continue reading “LOOK
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