Many times, throughout my 36-year Nursing career as a Director of Nursing in Gerontology & Alzheimer’s Disease, I worked with difficult patients. And many, many times I would ask the Lord to help me find the joy in serving them. For if I’m to serve the Lord in loving service as a grateful response to His grace…I’m then to serve the interests of others in love as Galatians 5:13 tells me to. So, the bottom line is, my joy in serving others cannot depend on whether someone is cooperative or uncooperative…. difficult or easy to deal with. It’s a decision as Paul made in I Corinthians 9:19 that, “I have made myself a servant to all.” And to accomplish this, I remind myself often of Romans 15:13, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
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