Hospital Procedures--Helpful or Hindering?
If a hospital is supposed to be a place of healing, health
and restoration why do they disturb you day and night? It's hard to understand
why it is so very important that they check your temperature, your blood oxygen
level and blood pressure in the middle of the night.
After one of those nights filled with numerous interruptions,
my husband had enough. When they arrived in his room at 4:30 AM to draw blood,
he clearly told the nurse no. He demanded that she return at a decent hour. She
reluctantly said she would return in an hour after completing the draws from
the rest of the floor. (Personally I wanted to get it over with so that we
didn't have to wake up again so soon.)
Although I know the tests and checks are an important part
of the healing process and are necessary to make sure there are no
complications that arise undetected, at the time they seem to be nuisances.
However if something had been wrong, we would have been thankful for the
monitoring checks.
If a hospital does those periodic checks, why doesn't the
church do the same thing for its members? Don't you think that as we journey
through life we shouldn't just assume that our sisters and brothers in Christ
are doing fine if they seem to look okay on the outside? Why don't we hold each
other accountable for our words, our actions, our thoughts? Shouldn't we ask
questions to see how healthy we really are?
Now I am not proposing that these questions be asked in the
middle of the night, but it might not be so bad to have them spread throughout
the day as reminders to keep us spiritually healthy and well.
2 Corinthians 13:5-6 Examine yourselves to
see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that
Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test? And I trust that you will discover that we have not
failed the test.
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