Serving God With One Eyebrow

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The Word for Today
with Bob Gass
Serving God With One Eyebrow
The strong Spirit of a man will sustain him in bodily pain or trouble.
Proverbs 18:14 AMP
David Rabin was a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. When he
was 46 he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease. He knew what would
happen. Stiffness in the legs, then weakness; paralysis of the lower limbs
and then the upper. Eventually his body would no longer obey his commands.
He could form words only with the greatest difficulty and eventually not at
all. He lost his ability to treat patients and could no longer go to the
hospital to work. He would have had a brilliant academic career; now he
couldn't even turn the pages of a book. But there was one thing he would not
surrender: his spirit! One day he heard from a fellow physician who also had
Lou Gehrig's Disease about a computer that could be operated by a single
switch. That switch could be operated by anyone, however physically
challenged, who retained the function of just one muscle group. David Rabin
still had enough strength in one part of his body - his eyebrow. So for the
next four years he used it to speak to his family, tell jokes, write papers
and review manuscripts. He carried on a medical consulting practice. He
taught medical students. He published a comprehensive textbook on
endocrinology and achieved a prestigious award for his work. And he did it
with the only thing he could control - a single eyebrow.

The Bible says: "The strong Spirit of a man will sustain him in bodily pain
or trouble" (Proverbs 18:14 AMP). David Rabin proved that's true. With a
Spirit that refused to give up, and one eyebrow, he served God and blessed
the world around him!

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