My Time

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die;

Ecclesiastes 3:1,2a

My last Post was about Miracles.  The day after that Post, God revealed a miracle He did for me.

Let me explain-

It was during my yearly stress test at the Heart Institute.  While hooked up with wires and running on the treadmill, my doctor was studying the graph before him.  At the peak of my elevated heart rate, he looked up from the computer and said, "Have you ever had a heart attack?"

I looked at him as my heart suddenly went into double time and said, "No."

(But in my mind, I was thinking, 'Not yet, but after a question like that I'm about to have one!')

He then went on to say that the test cannot show  when I had a heart attack, but my test shows that I have had a heart attack, but the good news was that my heart shows no damage.

After three more hours of testing, I was sent home to wait for the results;  24 hours of worry, anxiety and non-existing, life threatening chest pains!

Then I received the phone call:  "Everything looks normal, no damage, no blockage, nothing to worry about.  We will see you in a year."

I was baffled.

But then I remembered My God of Miracles-

You see, even though my physical body had a heart attack, God is the One Who sustains me.  

Psalms 31:14-15a says, "But I trusted in thee, O LORD:  I said, Thou art my God.  My times are in thy hand:"

God alone decides when He will call me home-

He is in control of every beat my heart makes, every breath I take.

"Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass."  Job 14:5

God is not finished with me yet.  He has a plan and a purpose for me to still do-

My body wanted to shut down, but it couldn't, because it is God Who sustains me!

He is the One holding me in His hand-

    But that's just me!