The Lord Is Compassionate, His Love Unfailing

Since I moved here I have been seeing an eye specialist once a year to have the pressure in my eyes tested. Unfortunately, with every appointment so far, I have left the eye specialist's office with my corneas scratched. The result is eighteen hours of extreme pain.

After the first appointment, I phoned him back and informed him of the pain, but he didn't believe me. The second time it happened, my eyes started to hurt even before I left his office, but he denied having scratched my corneas. The third time, he made a point to check my eyes after the test because I made sure that his receptionist had my complaint written down on file. After checking my eyes, the specialist sheepishly told me that the corneas of my eyes were scratched again. No apology followed, and I fearfully anticipated the next eighteen hours of pain. I made up my mind then and there that I would never see him again.

However, for me to see another eye specialist, I had to find an optometrist in the area to recommend me to one. God is good and compassionate! for He led me to a kind optometrist who recommended me to a new eye specialist whom he said was probably the best in the city.

Yesterday, I nervously waited an hour and a half to see my new eye specialist for the first time and have the same test performed on each eye. I am very pleased and thankful to say that I left his office without any discomfort in my eyes, and a glowing report. Praise God!

It's kind of funny though. The eye specialist looked at my test results in puzzlement as he wondered why I was even there. If he hadn't been running so late with an enormous amount of patients in the waiting room, I would have loved to share with him the story of how God healed me.

"The Lord is merciful and compassionate,

slow to get angry

 and filled with unfailing love."

Psalm 145:8 (NLT)

God is indeed merciful and compassionate! His love is unfailing! As I sat in the waiting room for an hour and a half and saw the sad, despairing faces of people who were loosing their sight, God's compassion welled up inside me. I closed my eyes to hide my tears, and prayed that God would heal them all.