Finding Comfort in God’s Sovereignty

This video is the personal testimony of John Farese, a Christian gentleman who suffers from a congenital illness that has left him dependent upon the care of others for his entire life.  He speaks eloquently about the great comfort he finds in God’s sovereignty while facing a condition that many would curse God for, even identifying his illness as a blessing.

John ends his printed testimony with these words:

“One of the psalmists wrote, Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me’ (Psalm 66:16) - and I gladly do so.  He has turned my mourning into laughter and my desolation into joy.  He has made my heart rejoice with ‘an inexpressible and glorious joy’ (1 Peter 1:8). When I struggled to escape from his grace, he drew me to himself.  I bear witness that never servant had such a master as I have, never brother such a kinsman, never spouse such a husband.  No sinner ever had a better Saviour than Jesus, no mourner a better comforter.  I want none beside him.  In life he is my life, and in death he shall be the death of death.  In poverty, he is my riches, in sickness my health, in darkness my sun.  Jesus is to me all grace and no wrath, all truth and no falsehood:  and of truth and grace he is full, infinitely full.”