CLM 917 For Some, Commitment is Costly

From: "Clergy Mailing List"

Tue, 12 Oct 1999

Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list No. 917                           (Brief)  

Here's another daily meditation from my book of devotions       
'Sunrise Sunset' (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco). Feel free    
to use/adapt it. These appear regularly on our mail-list.  

Rowland Croucher 

FOR SOME, COMMITMENT IS COSTLY

Do not fear... do not be intimidated. 1 Peter 3:14.

Today I read of a medical doctor in Zimbabwe who closed a box of 
surgical needles after an operation on a small child. One wasn't 
lying flat, and it pierced the box, and his glove and went into his 
thumb. A simple little accident, you may think? Not so. The matron 
of that hospital had been flown home, sick, and was discovered to 
be HIV positive. She was a midwife, and it was thought some 
infected blood had splashed into her eye. One of the other nurses 
also decided to return to England.  

The doctor is married, with two small children. Should he go back 
home to a 'safe' job?  

He ended his story with these words: 'I don't pretend to have all 
the answers or fully to understand why such things happen but I 
have concluded that whatever happens we should follow God. If I 
leave, it should be because God has called me elsewhere, not 
because of fear.'  

Lord, the way is sometimes hard. It is costly to follow you. But 
that's a small price to pay, when I think of the price paid in 
blood for my saving. Amen.  

Shalom!   

      Rowland Croucher                   
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