good report

whilst others had her palm read, as to when they would get married and how many children they would have, the lady looked at hers. she said " you'd better look after your health"...

what a foreboding, uncomfortable feeling...like a pronouncement of hopelessness and impeding doom, possibly death & suffering.

under her breath, she rebuked the statement and the feelings in the name of Jesus, remembering that with Long Life HE will satisfy her, all the days of her life...

thankfully she went to church. she knows now how hearing a bad report really pulls you down, and ministers death...

God loved her, loves her...and through the worship..it was a time of healing. she claims it in faith for the darkness that crept in, for sickness that could-have-been...and while the Word of God went forth, it spoke of how the law gave strength to sin, which gives rise to death. before the Law, everyone lived a long life...yet thereafter the Law, people had shorter lifespans. Because of God's grace, Jesus died for sins, satisfied the Law, that she might have long life, abundant life filled with divine health and longevity.

she never longed to live long. but to live long to testify of God's goodness? that is one reason worth living.

loneliness stepped back, when Jesus walked in.
shalom