Absolute Trust

I mentioned yesterday that I had a terrible sore throat.

I’m pleased to say that it has calmed down considerably but that I’m still feeling a little drained.

The interesting thing is that my on-air guest during my morning programme on Sonshine FM was Philip Bridgeman from Wisdom for Health.

Off-air, Philip asked me a number of questions about my throat problems and concluded that my immune system was a bit low after being busy to finish up at one place of employment and then trying to get my head around my new position. (Which is pretty much what I had thought all along.)

He gave me a small brown bottle with some liquid inside and told me, ‘It shouldn’t taste too bad’. Inside the bottle is a formula that he mixed up to help boost my immune system so that I can shake off this bug. It tastes pretty awful.

The thing that I only thought about later is that I didn’t question him as to what’s in the mixture, what will it do etc. I simply trusted him. I knew that he wasn’t going to do something that would harm me. It’s not in his nature.

Even though I don’t enjoy the experience of swallowing the mixture – I know who gave it to me and I know that it is for my benefit. I intend to drink every last drop.

You guessed it. There’s a great sermon illustration in there.

Posted by Rodney Olsen



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Rodney Olsen

Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.

He has worked in radio at Perth's media ministry Sonshine for over 25 years and has previously worked at ministries such as Compassion Australia and Bible Society.

The views he expresses here are his own.

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