A loving mother will stand in a hallway of a hospital or sit in the waiting room while the doctor performs surgery on her child. She cannot bear to watch the incision in the skin or see the blood ooze out of the wound. Every nerve screams with the instinct to stop the procedure, pulling the knife away from the surgeon and running out the door with her child.
But she doesn’t.
Instead, she waits and prays, longing for her child to be safely restored into her arms.
So it is when God is performing spiritual surgery on our child.
