Title: In Remembrance of Rosemary Amos Cotton
Text:
Exodus 14:13 (HCSB)
But Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand firm and see the Lord's salvation He will provide for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.
Observation:
Today would have been our 50th anniversary. Today I share an event from one day in our married life. Rosemary was a woman of God; a woman of prayer, and faith in a great and gracious God.
This day was typical of many that we experienced from that day in August 1987 when the doctor said, "You have cancer", to that day in March 2012 when her Lord called her home.
We had gone to the medical supply company to get a G-Tube. They did not have one, and said it would take a week to get one. That was not a good answer; because the G-Tube was my wife's only means of taking food and medicine. We needed the G-Tube today, not next week.
Rosemary was not a happy camper. As Rosemary was talking to the Customer Service person, I was talking to the Lord. The answer I got was to go to the hospital emergency room. A doctor found a G-Tube, but had no procedure to charge us for it as an outpatient. He decided to give it to us, and said this visit never took place. We had another alternative for getting the defective G-Tube replaced; we just needed a new G-Tube, and we had it. Now, this is what the Lord taught Rosemary through this frightful experience.
Upon arriving home, Rosemary wrote in her journal that she read a devotional on Exodus 14:13. The author of the devotional was Charles Spurgeon. He said, "These words contain God's command to the believer when he is reduced to great straits and brought into extraordinary difficulties. You cannot retreat, you cannot go forward, you are shut up on the right hand and on the left; what are you going to do now? The Master's words to you are: STAND FIRM".
The theme of Rosemary's life was to live one day at a time, and learning to lean on the everlasting arms of her Savior. She was confident that He was able to see her "Through It All". We discovered that yes He can, and yes He will.
Prayer:
Father, I thank you for being a rock in a weary land, and our shelter in the time of storms. Yes, storms will come, but the child of God has this assurance; we don't have to face them alone. Father, I thank you for being for us; Jehovah Jireh, the God who provides. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
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Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
4 But He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.
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