This is Glory - just back from Johannesburg. He attends the cardiology clinic I run in Queens. We referred him 18 months ago for repair of his congenital heart disease... and 3 weeks ago he went, courtesy of the Government of Malawi. He's a lucky boy - in another year or 2 his heart would have been irreparable and he would have died of heart failure in his early teens. Now, with his heart healed in the Walter Sisulu Paediatric Cardiology Centre, his life expectancy is normal. Only 4 or 5 children a year from our clinic get a chance like this.
According to the Bible, healing a heart (i.e the core of our spiritual being) is also a tricky business - "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" Jeremiah 17:9. We tend to reject the urgent healing we need from Jesus - "This people's hearts have become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they...might understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them" Matthew 13:5. But if only we have the humility to ask Him, He can make our hearts new - "Create in me a clean heart O God, and renew a right spirit within me" Psalm 51:10.
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