A New Day with Janie T. (#06)

Panic In The Night

Many years ago my youngest son suffered terribly from Asthma and still does to this day. That meant countless, long, frightening nights, and many trips to the hospital emergency room.  I never knew when I picked my son up and headed out for the hospital if I would return home with him. It was high trauma the entire time. It was a most severe case of Asthma and other lung disorder.

How can a mom forget that dreadful night at Saint Luke’s Hospital in Boise Idaho, when the Doctor steps into the room, pulls you aside and informs you that he doesn’t think your son will make the night. Night after night lying beneath an oxygen tent, blue in color, my son lay close to death.

What can you do when your child is lingering between life and death? Only prayer can soothe the “panic in the night.” My mind would return back to every scripture that I had ever known about the healing touch of Jesus. Over and over I mulled those scriptures and at the same time gave the Lord the freedom to take my son to heaven to be with HIM forever if that was HIS will.

I had seen this precious young life suffer so needlessly for so long that each trip to the hospital seemingly became next to unbearable. It was the depth of my being crying out “God please do something” for my son.” It didn’t seem to me that God heard a word I was saying. But this one thing I knew, when you have done all you know what to do, just stand firm and fixed on God’s Word. It is the only thing that can bring lasting hope.

Ephesians chapter 6  (TLB) was a great encouragement in those days of mental anguish. Verse 13 and 17 spoke to my heart. So use every piece of God’s armor to resist the enemy whenever he attacks, and when it is all over, you will still be standing up. You will need the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, __ which is the Word of God.

The twenty-third Psalms was another that helped me walk through the dark valley (shadow) of death.

If you are walking in this valley today with one of your loved ones be encouraged in God’s Word. He will be your constant helper through what you are going through today. Isaiah 41:10, Fear not, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed. I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.

 My prayers are with every person that is experiencing “panic in the night.”