The Hospital

So no Bible study notes from me today as unfortunately I couldn't make it due to a hospital appointment, nothing urgent, I'm not going that easily!

I am thankful for being an individual who only goes to a hospital on a very rare occasion.

Hospitals always carry an atmosphere to me- if we believe souls leave the body the way traditionally pictured, then the emergency sections of hospitals must contain a greater amount of souls leaving than other places. Will these souls get to heaven? Only if the person accepted Christ as their Saviour and that Christ is their only hope of eternal salvation.

And another part of the atmosphere for me- people who are high up in society- whether financially or otherwise- find their lives turned upside down and day crashing down when they discover they have a degenerative or terminal illness.

My wife is not so fortunate with hospitals- all those times with her brain aneurysm she had, the times she was in hospital with an undiagnosed blood pressure condition which took many trips to diagnose. And finally losing our unborn baby which never saw the world.

So my wife especially can tell us Christ is not just a character we read about in the NT- he is always with us through the suffering and good times- he is as real to her as friends or family are and he is God the Son!