We are all familiar with the blessing that is described in Ephesians 2:10:
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (NIV).
It is with gratitude and humility that we accept the privilege of doing these good deeds that God alerts us to do. A maturing faith sensitizes us to identify such opportunities. A health journey like the one I (and you?) am on provides ample opportunities to do good.
We do not know the full extent of the good that will come from our deeds done at God’s direction, but God has shown us that He can do far more than anything we can ask or imagine with our offering, just as he did with a few loaves and fishes.
I could see that all the ways He had already turned bad news into something good for me in this new journey with LMS were only the vaguest suggestion of the full extent of the good that He had in mind. I was being enlisted by God as a partner in delivering good to others as well. This opened my eyes to see a more full-orbed understanding of Ephesians 2:10. God was not only promising to help me through my affliction, but also was blessing me with the opportunity to use the forthcoming bad news events of the affliction for the good of others. This revelation totally turned me around to how I came to view the bad news events related to the disease in the next 13 years.
