Breaking Points

We have just posted a new sermon called Breaking Points. Here’s an excerpt:

I have a friend who is going through a crisis regarding his newborn grandchildren who are having serious medical issues. He spoke of being on a roller coaster of emotions as the doctors first gave bad news, then good news, then news that is somewhat confusing. He felt like being taken to the top and then suddenly dropped to the bottom. He added this telling phrase: “I’ve found that it squeezes my mind quite a bit while trying to do other things.”

When I asked a supremely gifted cancer doctor to tell me the current state of research, he took his hand and spread his fingers, as if to say, “The research is all over the map.” It all depends on what kind of cancer. And where. And when they found it. And where you are being treated. And what treatments are used. Medicine is an art and a science, and there are percentages but no guarantees.

Our text reminds us that we are not waiting for the latest medical breakthrough or even for a message from our loved ones or a new job or an end to a prison sentence or for an offer of a better job or a check for a million dollars. We are waiting for the Lord.