Happy Easter, Friends!
Today I tuned into service at Passion City Church in Atlanta, GA, where I used to attend church while on travel nursing assignment there. Louie Giglio, Sadie Robertson Huff, and Tim Tebow brought a FIRE sermon this morning! But it’s what Sadie said that really sparked a change in perspective for me as a nurse.
While there may not be a cure for COVID-19, there is a cure for death, and His name is JESUS CHRIST! Mind blown. What a statement!
Lately, at the hospital, I seem to be surrounded by death. Every day I come into work, I hear about who we lost overnight and who may not make it through today. The amount of body bags we have stocked is heartbreaking. While I’ve tried to maintain a positive outlook and focus on our recovery numbers, to be honest, those we've lost have been weighing on my heart heavier this week. There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight quite yet.
But the end is in sight for God. God knew I needed to hear this sermon today. That I needed to be reminded that while this has been a hard week for me, it was a hard week for Jesus, too. And look what came from that! I was reminded today that my Savior bore everything for me, so surely I can bear this struggle and shine God’s light in the midst of it all.
We are not in control. We have never been in control. We will never be in control.
God is in control. The same God that raised Jesus from the dead two-thousand years ago, is the same God that knows my name, and knows yours. He is the same God that has numbered the days that this pandemic will ravage this world, and knows the day that our quarantines will end.
God never changes. He is the same today, the same yesterday, the same tomorrow. And HE IS SO GOOD! He is so good you guys! I can say that with 100% certainty, with every fiber of my being, even though I will walk into work today knowing that someone took their last breath there last night.
Today is Easter Sunday and THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! Jesus’s grave, and YOUR grave. While our physical bodies may die, we get to live forever with God in Heaven for eternity and that is the perspective that I needed to hear today. While I may look upon the bodies of those that have passed on, I hope and pray that they have gone HOME.
Take some time to nurse yourself today by nursing your soul. Pray. Crack open your Bible. Whether your Bible has accumulated dust on your bookshelf, or whether you’ve never opened a Bible, or whether you don’t even have a Bible to open...that’s okay! God still loves you anyway! Break it out or download it today. I promise YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.
Happy Easter! He is Risen, indeed! Let Jesus nurse your heart and soul today!
