A Sovereign God

A sovereign God took home another brother. Brian Dimos was only 57, when I prayed for Brian, I prayed please God heal him, he is so young. Well he is Healed, everything is healed. Yet I would always end with thy will be done, almost like I knew this was a sickness unto death. We don't want to speak it out loud but I felt like his healing would be in heaven.  Brian said it himself, he would be healed, either right away through the prayers of all those praying. or through a long treatment process with doctors and nurses and others, or it would be in heaven. But he would be healed. It was brain cancer and it took him fairly quick. He helped us as a deacon just last  December I think,  and that was the last time. He was soon walking with a cane. And very soon after that with a walker, and next he was in a wheelchair. We prayed for him in Sunday School, please God heal that Sunday before God took him early Monday morning. Brian was quiet, but he loved people. He really didn't talk a lot. He was the chairman of the deacon board my first year as deacon. That is when I first got to know him. That was only 3 years and seven months ago. He was quiet, his family described him as shy from even a child. But he lived well, he was a servant in his heart and was willing to serve any chance he had. He was loved and respected. It was a sovereign God that took him home.We are sad because we really wanted him to be healed here below. We loved him. We know his family will miss him, and we will too.  God chose to take him at only 57. In some ways,  I envy him, he had his sight on heaven. I feel he learned early what I am only beginning to learn. He went downhill so fast.  I am thankful that God took him. I didn't want to see him in pain. I didn't want to see him with a cane or with a walker or a wheel chair. But we have that assurance that all is well. Brian loved God and knew God was sovereign, and that was expressed when he was asked how we could pray for him. He wasn't worried about his pain, but for his wife and daughters, how they would do with him leaving so early. It is just so comforting to know all is well. I sat behind him a month or so ago and saw the scab on his head where they cut into him, we found out later it wasn't a scab but brain fluid leaking. Actually in his weakened state it was the treatment that killed him.  From everyone that I heard from, he never complained, and he was always trying to encourage others. He was so quiet, I really don't have much to say. He was a Christian, he lived it every day, just a soft spoken Christian. I miss him already. I knew him for such a short time. He was another you could follow as he followed Christ. Brian, I want to see you on the other side. Heaven is made up of good people like Brian, that committed their life to Christ  and remained faithful to the end.  God bless, LVZ.