The screen - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; o LORD, my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.
Psalm 30:11.12.

The screen
A man who had had a serious accident lay in his hospital bed. There he had plenty of time to consider things. As the prospects of healing were uncertain, he also thought about death.

One day a nurse suddenly put a screen round his bed. The man understood what that meant for him: he had little time left to live.

On the wall opposite his bed hung a text from the Bible: "Come to me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). The man's glance turned from the verse to the screen and vice-versa. Come to Jesus! Wasn't it too late for him? Until now he had been so indifferent towards God. But now time was pressing. He exclaimed loudly, "Jesus, I'm coming to you!" - !"Poor fellow!" thought the patient in the next bed, "He's going mad."

The Lord heard that troubled cry, and stirred the man's memory: he remembered Bible verses heard in his younger days. "The one who comes to me I will by no means cast out." "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live." (John 6:37; 11:25). The message of salvation penetrated his troubled soul, and the seed took root. He found peace.

Later the nurse re-entered the room. "Do please excuse me. I came to the wrong room." And she removed the screen. "Nurse, your mistake brought me salvation." The man regained his health and led a happy life following the Lord Jesus.

Today's reading: Genesis 45:16-28 · Psalms 32:6-11