BOB RAMBO
Hi! I'm Bob Rambo, Lead Pastor at Central UMC. Alexandra Levine, a doctor in Los Angeles, tells of being a young intern in medical school. She was assigned to follow a “resident” around during visits. A patient on her floor had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. She came into the hospital healthy and vivacious; but when they did surgery, there was nothing they could do.
The next day the “resident” told the patient: It's cancer. We really couldn't do anything, so we just opened and closed. The woman laid there in bed in disbelief and repeated: Let me get this straight: you just opened and closed? Opened and closed? Then the woman shooed them away saying: I don't feel like visiting.
That night this woman - vivacious and healthy before surgery - DIED. Alexandra Levine says: I'm absolutely convinced she died because all hope had been taken away from her.
Hope - the conviction that despite our present circumstances, the future will be better - is ESSENTIAL for survival. As Christians, we hope because we believe the future is in the hands of a good and gracious God.
Today - may you be filled with HOPE.
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