Heart Surgery by David Jeremiah

Thursday, April 27

Heart Surgery 

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. 
Ephesians 4:32 

Recommended Reading Ephesians 4:25-32

On September 7, 1896, a young gardener was walking in a park in Frankfurt, Germany, when he was attacked and stabbed in the chest. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, and Dr. Ludwig Rehn decided to open the man’s chest and perform surgery directly on his heart. Up until then, the heart had been considered the center of the soul and was untouchable, beyond the limits of surgeons. But Rehn successfully repaired the wound to the man’s right ventricle and, in so doing, wrote a new chapter in medical history.¹

None of us wants to go through heart surgery; but when it’s necessary, we’re glad for the medical pioneers who perfected the process.

The Great Physician has been performing open-heart surgery from the very beginning of history. He knows how to heal our spiritual heart disease and to give us new hearts, open hearts—open to others, open to forgive, open to be conveyers of His kindness. Let Him open your heart to the needs and cares of those around you.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain 

¹Orla J. Werner, Christian Sohns, Aron F. Popov, Jannik Haskamp, and Jan D. Schmitto, “Ludwig Rehn,” Journal of Medical Biography 2012, 20:32-34.