These devotions are targeted specifically for you, the healthcare professional, and the challenges unique to you that you face on a day-to-day basis. You can sign-up here to receive these devotions through a weekly email or you can come back to this page to read the weekly devotion online. We hope you are encouraged and inspired by them, and that you can gain insight and wisdom from others who have gone through the same challenges that you face in the healthcare industry today.
"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him" (James 1:5, KJV).
My Place
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6, ESV).
Lab Results
“Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.’ And they divided up his clothes by casting lots” (Luke 23:34, NIV).
The Great Splash
“He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children, so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children. Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands” (Psalm 78:5-7, NIV).
Even the Prayer
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans” (Romans 8:26, NIV). Given my natural inclination toward self-serving apathy, I have long committed to one act of undeserved kindness each week toward someone outside…
Gratitude
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me…He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted…to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning…” (Isaiah 61:1-3, NIV). She stood at the bedside of her son, who was lying there with a rapidly progressive and…
The Good Side of Sorry
“…While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8, NIV). I caught up with her on the way to the parking lot: “Are you mad at me about that patient?” She and I had shared a heated conversation over a disagreement regarding a patient’s care. I eventually accepted her side of the…
Differences
“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2, NIV). He had been sent to the hospital three times after back…
Reasonable Sin
“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death” (Proverbs 14:12, ESV).
Linkage
“For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose” (Philippians 2:13, NIV).
