Later this morning my wife is undergoing an echocardiography stress test more commonly known as an stress echo. Leah has some issues with her heart, and this test gives the doctors the opportunity to see how well the heart is working and make sure it's pumping the blood as it should. Leah will be hooked up to a monitor and put under physical stress (probably some mental and emotional as well considering the circumstances) while medical staff stand by to observe the condition of her heart and make sure she stays alive. It's a little scary, but it's important to know because she wants to be around for quite a while longer, and those of us who love her want her here too.
Those who have found relationship with our Creator through Jesus have been given a second chance and a new life. We have undergone a heart transplant. But how can know how healthy the new heart is? Stress echo. Just observe the condition of the heart under stress. When we're tired, under deadline, things aren't going our way, etc. how does our heart react? Do we echo the love and mercy of God we ourselves have received and continue pumping the life's blood of Christ, or does our heart cramp up cutting off life and causing only pain, misery and weakness? The healthier we are spiritually the more our hearts will echo the rhythm of the Lord's heart. But while it's nice to relax, you can't get an accurate reading of the condition of the heart when it's at rest. It's when the stress starts that we get a clear picture of how healthy we really are.
Today I will remember that when the stress of life begins to wear and rear at me that this is my opportunity to make sure I am in good shape with God. I will turn to Him and allow the Great Physician to strengthen my heart so that I can stay alive in Christ.
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