Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller.

So I remember getting a call from a family who goes to the crossing and I had never met them but they'd been coming a little bit and I went over to meet them because the mom, kind of the matriarch of this family, was getting close to dying.

And so you never know what to expect when you walk into someone's home who is near death and what I found was a woman who was full of life.

Yes, she was sick, she was sitting in a chair, she had lost much of her ability to kind of function on her own because she was dying of cancer, but she had a lot of life and a lot of joy.

And as I got to know this woman over the next several weeks I just found that this woman was

really confident in her death and here's what I think that is. She explained to me that over the course of several years, she had watched her family members kind of move further and further away from Jesus. And she remembered praying, God, I want you to do anything in my life that you need to in

order to bring them back toward Jesus.

I'll do anything, God God and it wasn't long after she prayed

that she was diagnosed with cancer and she told me as we sat in our living

room that she had seen God answer a prayer, that through

that cancer the people she loved and cared for had taken significant steps

toward Jesus. And to be honest with you, some of those people are leaders in our church today

who came back to Christ and got involved at the crossing because of a mom's prayer, but more than that, because of a mom's prayer but more than that because of a mom's suffering.

So I guess the point is that in the midst of our suffering

God does a lot of really good things

and we are sitting here in the middle of this global pandemic where there's been a lot of suffering and yet my guess is if you're like us you can see that God's been doing some good things too. That God's been teaching people

things, he's been opening our eyes to things we haven't seen, he's been changing

our desires, he's been waking us up to some truth that maybe we

should have seen for a long time, but the reality is that it took a global pandemic for

us to be confronted with them. Patrick, are there some things that you have kind of learned or some bright spots in the middle of this difficult time?

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