Light affliction....

At last, the day has come! Thank you for your patience, and I want to especially thank those of you who prayed for me in this exciting time that we are finding ourselves in!

About six weeks ago, I slowly but surely realized that I am losing my balance while walking and cycling. We prayed about it, and went to see a doctor about the situation. At first nothing could be found and the medication he prescribed did not work so I went to see a specialist who sent me for a MRI, blood tests and a hearing test.

While I was laying in the MRI machine, I felt that the Holy Spirit were showing me that there is going to be something, but that I should stay in God’s Rest. Now, if you read this blog regurlarly, you know that this is what we were busy with, at that specific point in time. And this is what I am still standing in, in His Rest. From there we saw four other specialists of which the last one admitted me in hospital for a few more tests. They found an arachnoid cyst in the membrane of the brain, but concluded that this was not the cause of the balance problem, as it was there since birth. There is also a few other “marks” on the brain scan which could not be explained.

The interesting thing was that they could not find anything further, and I must say they went through my whole body! In the first feedback session the doctor said that I am completely healthy, so much so, that it ‘upsets’ him! They did a Lumber Punch which also showed nothing negative in my body. Blood tests, eye nerve tests, you name it.... and nothing. I am still experiencing the balance problem, but went home on Friday, last week.
On Saturday I did a wedding ceremony and on Sunday morning, the service at our church, which was, needless to say, very special! This is in short what happened in the physical, but what I have learned in this time, is explained in what Paul wrote to the Corinthian church in 2Cor 4:16-18:
“Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day. (17) For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!], (18) Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.”

I am completely convinced that I am already healed- I have tests to prove it! The one thing that is clear to me, God wants you and me to know Him, to really know Him. (2Peter 1:2) The ‘unseen’ which Paul writes about here, is more real than that what we see- there is something here, completely simple, that God wants us to see, and that is the ‘realness’ of His Presence in us, with us, and also through us in Jesus Christ.

Although the balance is still lacking and I have a few headaches, God is busy revealing Himself in a very special way to me, and this means, to you as well! There is so much to share with you, and I will do so in the following days, and I pray that you will see how much He really loves you!

Till next time, be blessed!