Christian Devotional-Stories and Bible verses about the presence of God in our lives

God’s Healing Grace

I knew what I was about to see…

healing grace

I was about to see mean…

Sighing, I followed his assistant through the office door…

“Good morning,” I said.

Without looking up from his papers, he motioned toward a chair…

Twenty feet from his desk.

I sat.

He turned to his computer…

His back toward me…

The click of the keys the only sound…

His small desk light the only gleam…

In this, his inner sanctum, the sanctuary of his power.

I waited…

He turned back to the papers in the small circle of light on his desk….

He spoke…

A small voice…

Quiet…

The words lost in the dark between his desk and my chair…

Impossible to hear…

“Your chair…”

He raised his voice…

“Move it closer.”

The chair was large, heavy, not designed to move.

I struggled to drag it across the floor, finally entering his circle of artificial light…

We talked.

No…

He talked.

Fifteen minutes later, he stopped talking and waved his hand in dismissal.

I fled toward the door…

In a practiced routine, he waited until my hand touched the knob.

Looking up, a slight smile on his face, his voice now easy to hear because he chose to make it so, he spoke…

“Be sure to put your chair back where it belongs.”

He watched as I struggled to move it across the floor.

In his book Soul Keeping, John Ortberg asks…

“Is it healing to be with you?”

It certainly wasn’t healing to be with the man I had just left.

I had just seen mean.

Would I now be mean?

It’s a choice we all face, every minute of every day…

Will we place our souls under the yoke of the world’s oppression?

And in the resulting pain, help spread the hurt of the world?

Or will we remember what Jesus said and accept his yoke…

And in the resulting joy, help spread the word of God’s healing grace?

Come to me all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.  Matthew 11:28-30

Have you seen mean?

 How did you deal with it?

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