Finding True Hope
On Thursday morning, I went to a nearby clinic to give a morning devotion before the nurses started their daily duties. It was a very good morning. It was not very hot, but just warm, and I had my bike as a means of transport.
After delivering the devotion of encouragement to the sick and the mothers waiting to be treated, 23 people came to Jesus, the true hope. The encouragement was that people do well by coming to hospitals and clinics when they are not feeling well, for their hope is to get medication. They forget that with medication, people can also die with their hope in medication, but people need to trust Jesus, who is the true hope with or without medication. They feared that their hope might be shattered because many women were dying while giving birth. I asked them to put their trust in Jesus, who is the true hope now and forever, and two ladies gave their lives to Christ. I prayed with them for safe baby delivery and good health for both them and their babies to come.
For years, the clerk at the clinic was attending the devotion that I gave at his workplace, but he had never given his life to true hope. He said all was well because he had a job that gave him money and thought this was his true hope. This day, I shared the devotion, and that is when he realized that money cannot be true hope, for it loses value, yet Jesus is the true value now and forever. And that Jesus is in charge of life now and in the future, yet money is limited. The young man gave his life to Jesus, and he felt joy inside.
Doing one-on-one at this Lundi Clinic helped me to see the need for Jesus to be shared daily, for people are really moving away from the true hope. The whole day, I focused on just one verse from John 14 verse 6 which says that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.