Pastor John
Sunday after the meeting, I got a message that one of my friends that I use to go to church with had passed away. Her name was Kathy. She was about 8 years older than I, and we used to sit beside each other when I went to church. She was a sweet lady. She had diabetes, and as she was driving, her blood sugar level went over 400 and she blacked out and wrecked her car. She was in the hospital and had some other issues, and developed a blood clot that killed her.
Kathy never went to the doctor for help with her diabetes. The church didn’t believe in doing that. It is so sad, God’s people are in a mess! Suffering and dying when they don’t have too.
I was there once, Pastor John. For a long time, I didn’t go to a doctor. Instead, I would stay home and suffer, thinking I was doing the will of God. My heart goes out to Kathy’s family and the rest of God’s children who think they are doing the will of God when they are not. At the same time, I’m so thankful that Jesus rescued me from that. Thankful does not even come close to how I feel. I don’t know what we would do without His tender mercy.
Michelle H
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Hi Michelle.
These kinds of stories remind me of the lament of God through the prophet Hosea: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
He was not happy when He said that; He was hurting.
Pastor John