Show What Does I The Bible Say Sav By REV LEO E E. E RUBEL Of all the places in Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jeru Jeru- salem that Jesus could have visited one day He chooses to visit a hospital How totally I like Him The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost He had said I Luke 19 10 Come unto Me I all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give I you rest was His gracious i invitation Matthew 11 28 But here was a man who couldn't come and so the Savior came to him Do we consider it a part of our Christian calling to visit the j i isick sick I IF EVER A man needed a aI friend if was the man Jesus I I visited that day See John 5 16 1 Thirty-eight Thirty years in bed What an eternity of helplessness helplessness helplessness help help- I it must have seemed I Ito to him Wilt thou be made I whole How foolish that question question question ques ques- tion would have been upon the lips of anyone else but the Great Physician A moment I later He says Rise take up thy bed and walk Was there j ever power and love like this An anxious patient lying upon her sickbed turned to her doctor and asked Doctor how long will I have to lie here and suffer Just a aday aday aday day at a time replied the I kind and wise physician Just JustA A Day At A Time What a I comforting thought for those those- whom the Lord in His un j searchable wisdom has confined confined con con- fined to a sickbed of many years or who have been otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise afflicted GOD AS IT WERE breaks up their crosses into little pieces and asks them to carry only a piece at a time day day Iby I Iby by day As HAs thy days so shall thy strength be Deuteronomy l I 33 25 At the foot of every Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian sickbed there stands the same Savior the same yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- and today and forever forever for for- forever ever who stood beside the I bed of the poor man at Bet- Bet BetI I Let us become ever evermore evermore I Imore more keenly conscious of the Saviors Savior's cheering healing I presence in the sickroom of the Christian and of His ability to hallow every hour of ill illness illness ill ill- ness which comes into our om ill ill-I homes He is the Lord that thee He is the Great Physician His love has saved our souls His love will share t our sorrows His love will help us bear our pain His love I Ican can heal our bodies |