September 15

Cheer Power


We should be agents of grace and cheer to those who are ill by doing all we can to encourage them through their suffering.


Proverbs 18
14 A man's spirit sustains him in sickness,

but a crushed spirit who can bear?

It is a known and proven fact that attitude has everything to do with how one recovers from an illness. That is why everything must be done to relieve stress and to bring good cheer to those who are ill. I have known families who refused to leave the bedside of their unconscious relative but stayed by then when all medical hope was supposed to have been exhausted. However, they did not give up. The read the Bible and other uplifting literature, played music, and spoke to the unconscious one continuously of their love. In several of those cases the patient recovered and said they had heard every word It was the attention that attention called them back from the brink of death. Whether or not God chooses to give someone back their physical life is problematic but one thing is certain. We should be agents of grace and cheer to those who are ill by doing all we can to encourage them through their suffering.