The Return
PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 1:54 pm
Hey my brothers and sisters in Christ. It's been awhile for me but I want to share the with you Christ's blessings in my life over the past few months.
Around May this year, I posted a prayer request for my wife and I on passing our respective law and medical exams. Well, my wife passed the Bar and I am now in residency for internal medicine here in Atlanta.
My wife has been such a true joy. Since passing the bar, she applied for several different jobs but did not hear anything back. She was really becoming anxious because she was just sitting at home doing nothing. And since I was at work, that made it all the more difficult. However, in October she realized that she was seeking a job more than she was seeking Jesus Christ and refocused on Him and learned to be content. Similarly for me, I had been dealing with so many things as a husband and physician that I too was not seeking God properly on matters of the heart. So He broke me down and showed me that I needed to be content too. So here we are broken as a couple to allow God to mold us to be content instead of looking for the next thing (Philippians 4:10-13).
Then the Lord opened an opportunity for my wife to open up her own law practice. A church member donated her spare office practice to my wife to use as her new office. She is taking clients and is bringing the character of Christ to everyone she sees.
For me, I have been convicted about not being ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ (Romans 1:16). God had to show me that I need to love people so much that I can't be afraid to mention His name or His love even if it means that others might think I am crazy, some Jesus freak, or may not want to be my friends anymore. Admittedly, I would bite my tongue when it came to Christ because I didn't want people to not like me. But in essence, I was loving people's relationship more than I love God. And that ain't cool.
I see people dying in the hospital everyday; patients and their families along with my colleagues need to know that Jesus Christ loves them. God is still helping me to bold with my faith, of course tempered with gentleness and respect. And sometimes it is downright hard, so I ask for prayer from you.
Just wanted to share that testimony with you and I hope that it encourages you. Christ is our ever-present help in our time of trouble (Psalms 46:1-2).
Glad to see that the Alliance is allowing the light of Christ to shine that the world may see Him through us and glorify Him (Matthew 5:16).
Blessings,
WillieDoc aka Will Smith, Jr.
Around May this year, I posted a prayer request for my wife and I on passing our respective law and medical exams. Well, my wife passed the Bar and I am now in residency for internal medicine here in Atlanta.
My wife has been such a true joy. Since passing the bar, she applied for several different jobs but did not hear anything back. She was really becoming anxious because she was just sitting at home doing nothing. And since I was at work, that made it all the more difficult. However, in October she realized that she was seeking a job more than she was seeking Jesus Christ and refocused on Him and learned to be content. Similarly for me, I had been dealing with so many things as a husband and physician that I too was not seeking God properly on matters of the heart. So He broke me down and showed me that I needed to be content too. So here we are broken as a couple to allow God to mold us to be content instead of looking for the next thing (Philippians 4:10-13).
Then the Lord opened an opportunity for my wife to open up her own law practice. A church member donated her spare office practice to my wife to use as her new office. She is taking clients and is bringing the character of Christ to everyone she sees.
For me, I have been convicted about not being ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ (Romans 1:16). God had to show me that I need to love people so much that I can't be afraid to mention His name or His love even if it means that others might think I am crazy, some Jesus freak, or may not want to be my friends anymore. Admittedly, I would bite my tongue when it came to Christ because I didn't want people to not like me. But in essence, I was loving people's relationship more than I love God. And that ain't cool.
I see people dying in the hospital everyday; patients and their families along with my colleagues need to know that Jesus Christ loves them. God is still helping me to bold with my faith, of course tempered with gentleness and respect. And sometimes it is downright hard, so I ask for prayer from you.
Just wanted to share that testimony with you and I hope that it encourages you. Christ is our ever-present help in our time of trouble (Psalms 46:1-2).
Glad to see that the Alliance is allowing the light of Christ to shine that the world may see Him through us and glorify Him (Matthew 5:16).
Blessings,
WillieDoc aka Will Smith, Jr.
